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Why Per-Seat Pricing for Support Tools is Bleeding Your SaaS Dry
The Hidden Cost of Per‑Seat Pricing for Support Software You know what's weird? Every developer‑tool price model is different—Stripe charges per transaction, T...
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SRE Weekly Issue #506
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Costory: You didn’t sign up to do FinOps.Costory automatically explains why your cloud costs change, and repor...
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Back Up Multiple Drives to Backblaze with Deduplication – Introducing b2-dedup
Backing up terabytes of data across multiple drives, NAS boxes, or different computers? You want everything in one safe, off‑site place without paying a fortune...
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Caching Strategies for LLM Systems: Exact-Match & Semantic Caching
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FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026
In 2026, cloud cost overruns stop being finance’s problem and become an engineering responsibility. Here’s how treating cost as code finally makes FinOps work....
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Engineering Financial Durability Into Your Tech Stack (Without Killing Developer Joy)
Most teams choose a stack the same way they pick a playlist: based on mood, trends, and what feels familiar. That works until money gets tight, traffic spikes,...
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Cut AWS Bills by 50–75% with EC2 and RDS Parking
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Improving VirtOps: Manage, migrate or modernize with Red Hat and Cisco
Virtualization has been an evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. A variety of applications run on virtualization technology and many companies are...
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You’re Running EC2 Instances That Do Nothing
Problem Somewhere in your account, EC2 instances are running with no traffic, no purpose, and no owner. They were launched for a “temporary test,” but now they...
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Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%
Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users as...
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10 Proven Ways to Cut Your AWS Bill
Right‑size your EC2 instances One of the most common reasons for high AWS bills is over‑provisioned EC2 instances. Many systems use only a fraction of their ca...
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Reducing Sentry APM Costs in FastAPI by Sending Only What Matters
The Real Problem with Default APM By default, Sentry APM is very generous: - Every request becomes a transaction - Even sub‑second successful calls are recorde...