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https://lnkd.in/d54h5Tdb Cloudflare is down: https://lnkd.in/dVZ-UdWJ Supabase is down/slow Google cloud and Firebase are down and/or responding slow Calendly is also responding super slow AI tools like Cursor are also down Dive is up ! And I am happy to say that last year we “De-Clouded” all our platform to save on costs and give better […]

Fire Your Cloud, Not Your Engineers

💭 Fire Your Cloud, Not Your Engineers There was a time when starting a tech company meant: 🖥️ Buying physical servers 🎛️ Running tape backups 🧾 Managing your own Windows domain, Exchange, and printers Fast forward to today: ☁️ We’ve traded it all for cloud convenience—at a massive cost. At one company, we were burning […]

I keep seeing the same pattern in growth-stage companies.

I keep seeing the same pattern in growth-stage companies. Cloud spend rises. Delivery slows. Complexity increases. And the instinct is: “Should we rebuild?” Usually, that’s the wrong first move. Before rewriting anything, I ask a simple question: When was the last time someone actually opened AWS Cost Explorer (or any otherr cloud) and reviewed the […]

I audited an AWS account last year.

I audited an AWS account last year. (screenshots attached. 90% reduction !!) Monthly bill peak : ~$5,600 Nobody could explain why. So I opened Cost Explorer. Also, to remove confusion I always make sure I cancel savings plans or reserved instances. they are just confusing and lower the bill in an artificial way. It’s another […]

We cut AWS S3 costs by 40% overnight.

🔪We cut AWS S3 costs by 40% overnight. The storage wasn’t the problem. A lot of companies assume their AWS bill is driven by infrastructure size. In reality, it’s often driven by behavior. In this case: very small storage footprint no heavy traffic nothing “obviously expensive” Yet the bill kept growing. After digging in: ~85% […]