31 articles tagged with Cost Optimization.
A million-token window doesn't retire your retrieval stack. Here's when to stuff the prompt, when to retrieve, and when to do both.
A field guide to the FinOps tooling that actually earns its keep in 2026, from native dashboards to CloudZero and Cast AI, sorted by what you spend.
Your Datadog bill didn't spike because you monitored more. It spiked because containers, custom metrics, and log volume all bill on axes you never think about.
Datadog's bill has a way of tripling the quarter you actually start using it. Here are eight alternatives we've run in production and what each one costs you.
AWS gives you four ways to pay for compute and three of them cut the bill. Here is how to pick, and how to stack them without painting yourself into a corner.
Three object stores, similar sticker prices, wildly different bills once retrieval and egress hit. Here is where the money actually goes.
The three big clouds are closer on list price than the sales decks suggest. Where they actually diverge is discounts, egress, and Windows licensing.
Moving our fleet from x86 to Graviton promised 20% savings. We got 31%, but only after fixing native dependencies, a broken base image, and one nasty perf regression.
When our single LLM provider had a 40-minute outage, every AI feature went dark. A gateway with routing and fallback fixed that, and cut spend 30% as a bonus.
A 180k-token context window is not a license to stuff everything in. Here's how we cut prompt size 60% without hurting answer quality, and what to trim first.
A p99 that jumped to 3.4 seconds during traffic ramps turned out to be cold starts. Here's how we measured them properly and cut the tail, with real init timings.
We moved 40 TB of user media off S3 and cut the bill by 70 percent, mostly by killing egress fees. Here's where R2 won and where we kept S3 anyway.
