Cost
Articles tagged Cost — notes and deep-dives grouped under this topic.
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OpenCost: Kubernetes cost allocation by namespace and pod
The cloud bill knows the price of an instance, not the price of a service. OpenCost (CNCF Incubating) splits cluster spend by namespace and pod: the engine and its pitfalls, OpenCost vs Kubecost vs AWS SCAD, idle cost and the path to unit economics.
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Three levers against Kubernetes overspend: idle, scale-to-zero, right-sizing
The average cluster runs at 20–30% utilization. You pay for the rest. Three levers that recover the money without rewriting your architecture.
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FinOps Is Rationality, Not Cost-Cutting
Cloud overspend isn’t negligence — it’s the sum of locally rational decisions. Change the information environment, not the people.
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Saving Tokens in Agents: What the Survey Gets Right and What It Over-sells
A map of four token-cost techniques — caching, lazy tools, routing, compaction. It buries the cache's real consequence in a footnote, while two counter-intuitive facts are worth the whole map.