The egress trap: the cloud line item nobody budgets for
Egress fees turn data movement into a tax on your architecture. Here is how they distort design decisions, and how to escape the bill-shock loop.
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Field notes from the team.
Architecture decisions, incident write-ups, and the occasional rant.
Discount theatre: when your cloud bill needs a spreadsheet, not a deploy
Reserved instances, spot, savings plans, committed-use discounts: a maze that makes you do financial engineering instead of shipping software.
Read moreThe 30-Tab Problem
Cloud consoles became jargon-heavy mazes where every task lives on a different screen. Here is the cognitive cost — and how Kaligon stays small.
Read moreWhere your data actually lives
Data residency and sovereignty for engineers: what really decides where your bytes sit, why the region label lies, and where data quietly leaks out.
Read moreS3-compatible, actually
S3-compatible is on every storage page. The real question is whether you can leave. A field guide to object storage portability and the lock-in that hides inside it.
Read moreStop right-sizing spreadsheets
Right-sizing is a spreadsheet ritual born of bad pricing. Here is why you over-provision, why autoscaling adds a tax, and how per-second billing fixes it.
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