Tag: FinOps
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AI Cost Governance Is an Architecture Problem
A healthtech CTO I worked with blew her quarterly AI budget in six weeks. Her team of twelve engineers had adopted Claude Code across every workflow, the results were genuine, and the billing model changed mid-quarter. Some developers were generating $80 to $200 in daily charges. The CFO called, the board asked questions, and the…
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The Architecture Review Gap: Why AI-Accelerated Teams Need Them More
AI didn’t just increase delivery speed, it broke the cadence at which architecture is validated. Most organizations are still reviewing architecture at a pace designed for quarterly releases, while deploying multiple times per day. That structural mismatch, the distance between deployment velocity and architectural validation, is what I call the architecture review gap. It is…
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Why Your Cloud Migration Succeeded and Your Cloud Operations Didn’t
A few years ago, a financial services company asked us to help them roll back a cloud migration. Not pause it. Not optimize it. Roll it back. This wasn’t a company that was new to the cloud. They had been running cloud-native workloads on AWS for years: new applications, innovation projects, critical business services built…
