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Essays that make hard things clear.

Architecture, AI, and the discipline of leading engineering at scale, written to be useful, not impressive.

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Strategy, trade-offs, and where to spend scarce trust.

01One Big Cluster or Many: The AKS Tenancy Decision
02Upgrades Are a Feature: Designing AKS Clusters That Survive Day 2
03The AKS Bill Nobody Forecast: Architecting for Cost from Day Zero
04Workload Identity: Killing the Last Long-Lived Secret in AKS
05AKS Without the Hand-Waving: A Mental Model for the Control Plane

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AKS Scaling & Cost3 min read

The AKS Bill Nobody Forecast: Architecting for Cost from Day Zero

AKS makes it trivial to spend money and hard to see where it went. Cost on Kubernetes isn't a billing problem you fix later. It's an architecture property you design in, or pay for forever.

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The AKS Bill Nobody Forecast: Architecting for Cost from Day Zero

The Clarity Brief