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Written from engagements rather than from a content calendar. Each one is something we had to work out, usually while the bill was still going up.

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3 posts

1 October 2026 · 6 min

Why we count a saving once

Cost tools sum every finding they produce. When two detectors reach the same dollars from different directions, the total is wrong — and it is wrong in the direction that flatters whoever produced it.

  • FinOps
  • Kubernetes
  • Method

1 October 2026 · 7 min

What a read-only role can and cannot see

Read-only access is enough for most of a cost audit and quietly useless for some of it. Knowing which is which before you start is the difference between a finding and a guess.

  • AWS
  • FinOps
  • Access

1 October 2026 · 8 min

Karpenter consolidation: what the autoscaler owns

On an autoscaled cluster you do not own the node count. The requests do. That one fact invalidates a whole category of cost advice, and explains a surprising number of incidents.

  • Kubernetes
  • Karpenter
  • FinOps