How do you hold teams accountable for intentionally idle GPUs?
We spent about two weeks fixing our GPU metrics by enabling the normally disabled DCGM profiling counters and correcting which workload each measurement was attributed to. The effort…
cloud cost optimization
Are AI Agents Really Useful for Rightsizing Azure Workloads?
Our two-person FinOps team manages the entire cloud environment, so we do not have much time for continuous cost reviews. We are considering AI agents that monitor utilization,…
How Can Engineering Teams Make Cloud Cost Part of Everyday Decisions?
People often say that engineers do not care about cloud costs, but I'm not sure that is the right diagnosis. Engineers usually have immediate visibility into latency, errors,…
What’s a cost-effective AWS setup for a startup container stack?
I'm building an early-stage startup project with several containers: an API, two frontends, background workers, Dagster, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL. Everything currently runs on a VPS, but I'm considering…
What’s the most cost-effective AWS setup for a small containerized startup?
I'm setting up an early-stage startup project and need an affordable way to deploy several containers: an API, two front ends, background workers, a Dagster instance, Elasticsearch, and…
What’s the best way to automatically scale hundreds of Kubernetes workloads to zero?
We're looking for a way to automatically scale down performance-lab workloads when testing isn't running. We have hundreds of namespaces and more than 8,000 workloads, so manually managing…
How can I reduce the cost and memory usage of self-hosted Sentry on EKS?
I'm running a self-hosted Sentry deployment on EKS with the community-maintained Kubernetes Helm chart. Because of budget constraints, the cluster currently uses only t3a.large nodes, and Sentry is…
What Are the Best Resources to Learn DevOps Principles Rather Than Tools?
I'm noticing that the market is flooded with countless DevOps tools, making it tough to focus on what really matters. I believe that while tools may change, the…
How We Saved $23K a Year on AWS EKS Costs with an Auto-Kill Switch
We've implemented an auto-kill switch for our production EKS clusters and the results have been impressive—we saved over $23,000 in a year! Initially, we relied on passive alerts…