MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 12 min readFabric Capacity Optimisation: Reduce Cost, Improve Performance and Scale Smarter A bigger Fabric SKU hides architectural problems; it rarely fixes them. A practitioner's guide to Capacity Units, workload management, Power BI, Spark and Data Factory — so you optimise before you sca00
HFHaider Farooqinhaiderfarooq.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 3 min readLLM Cost Optimization: A Production PlaybookLLM bills grow like cloud bills did in 2015: invisibly, then suddenly. On products serving hundreds of active customers, token spend is a first-class engineering concern. This is the playbook I apply 00
SBShantanu Badmanjiinshantanubadmanji.hashnode.dev·Aug 13 · 10 min readAurora Optimization: How Storage Cleanup, Replica Removal, and Right-Sizing Cut RDS Costs by 84%The Database Was the Culprit When we started the cost optimization journey, the database looked bulletproof. It handled production traffic reliably. It had reader replicas for scale. It had headroom f00
CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·Aug 14 · 10 min readToken-Based Rate Limiting for AI Endpoints in ASP.NET Core: A Real-World WalkthroughThe first AI endpoint I put behind a rate limiter was protected by a policy that allowed 60 requests per minute per user. It felt responsible. Two weeks later one customer generated a bill larger than00
NCN Chandra Prakash Reddyindevopstour.hashnode.dev·Aug 10 · 7 min readControl AWS Traffic: Smart Serverless ThrottlingWhen I began building cloud-native apps on AWS, I was really focused on writing business logic. I liked how easy it was to connect API Gateway to AWS Lambda and get a working microservice up and runni00
ISilya sergeevinkrauncher.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 17 min readMost people who quit machine learning never got to itDisclosure: I build Krauncher, a service that prices GPU tasks before they run and places them on rented hardware. This article compares it honestly with the alternatives, including the ones I use mys00
SBShantanu Badmanjiinshantanubadmanji.hashnode.dev·Aug 4 · 11 min readFrom $4,200 to $800/month: Our AWS Cost Optimization Journey — 81% Cost Reduction With Zero DowntimeOpening: The Problem and the Proof We were paying $4,200 a month for infrastructure we didn't need to use. That sounds hyperbolic. It's not. Our primary database was 75% idle. Our containerized servic20
SCSherdil Cloudinsherdil-cloud.hashnode.dev·Jul 28 · 4 min readThe 5 Cloud Cost Metrics That Actually Matter (a Dashboard, Not a 40-Tab Spreadsheet)Most cloud cost reporting fails the same way: it drowns everyone in line items and answers no actual question. A CFO doesn't need 40 tabs, they need five numbers that say whether cloud spend is discip00
DGDebashish Ghosalinpragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 21 min readI Planned 10 LLM Evaluation Experiments. One Was Enough To Change How I Route Models.TL;DR I designed 10 LLM evaluation experiments to understand which models I should use for real DevOps workloads. I only fully ran one of them: a CI diagnostics experiment comparing Haiku 4.5 vs Son11K
BRBruce Rockwellinbruce-tech.hashnode.dev·Jul 27 · 9 min readKimi K3 Pricing Deep Dive: Is It Really 3x Cheaper Than Claude Fable 5?When Moonshot AI published Kimi K3's API pricing in July 2026, the headlines wrote themselves: "K3 costs a fraction of Fable 5." The per-token numbers look dramatic on a spreadsheet. But per-token pri00