- Databricks materialized view does a full recompute on every refresh - reading planning_information and making it incrementalDatabricks on Azure · 11 Nov 2026
- Right-sizing Azure Databricks clusters with system.compute.node_timeline: SQL for CPU, memory, swap, disk and idle workersDatabricks on Azure · 11 Nov 2026
- Sharing one LLM tokens-per-minute quota across many app replicas: a Redis token bucket that counts tokens, not requestsAI & GenAI · 11 Nov 2026
- AWS Budgets basics: set up your first cost alert and see what is costing moneyAWS · 6 Nov 2026
- Azure Databricks cluster still running overnight: auto termination and SQL warehouse auto stopDatabricks on Azure · 6 Nov 2026
- Estimate LLM token costs before you roll out: a simple method with PythonAI & GenAI · 6 Nov 2026
- LiteLLM proxy virtual keys: per-team budgets, model access and rate limitsAI & GenAI · 3 Nov 2026
- Introduction to Databricks compute types: all-purpose clusters, job compute, SQL warehouses and serverlessDatabricks on Azure · 2 Nov 2026
- Token counts don't match the bill: why tiktoken estimates differ from the usage your LLM API reportsAI & GenAI · 31 Oct 2026
- Azure Container Registry keeps growing: cleaning up old images with acr purgeAzure · 30 Oct 2026
- Azure Databricks costs missing tags in Azure Cost Management - cluster, pool, workspace and serverless tag propagationDatabricks on Azure · 29 Oct 2026
- Azure Monitor data collection rules: ingestion-time KQL transformations to filter, mask and split logsAzure · 29 Oct 2026
- Azure VM basics: stop vs deallocate, start, restart and resize without surprisesAzure · 29 Oct 2026
- Recovery Services vault can't be deleted - clearing backup items, servers, storage accounts and private endpointsAzure · 29 Oct 2026
- Weaviate multi-tenancy in production: tenants per customer, activity status, offloading and the errors you'll meetAI & GenAI · 28 Oct 2026
- Databricks compute policies - limiting VM sizes, enforcing auto-termination and tags without blocking usersDatabricks on Azure · 26 Oct 2026
- Databricks system tables for cost - SQL cheat sheet for DBU usage by job, cluster, warehouse, user and tagDatabricks on Azure · 26 Oct 2026
- OCI cost and usage cheat sheet - answering \"what did we spend and where\" with the Usage API and cost reportsOCI · 26 Oct 2026
- A cost kill switch for GenAI: stopping runaway token spend automatically on Azure and AWSAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: AKS cost and efficiency - right-sized requests, autoscaler tuning and spot node poolsAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: App Service plan consolidation, density and autoscale that follows real loadAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Autonomous Database cost - ECPU sizing, auto scaling, stop/start and elastic poolsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Backup cost - retention, archive tier, disk exclusion and redundancy choicesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Data Factory cost - activity runs, DIUs, data flow clusters and integration runtimesData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Databricks commitments - pre-purchase plans, reserved VMs and how to size them safelyDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Firewall policy clean-up, SKU choice and cost controlAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Functions cold starts, plan choice and the Flex Consumption planAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure spot VMs for Databricks workers - which jobs, fallback settings and eviction handlingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure SQL Database sizing with elastic pools, serverless and the right service tierAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Blob Storage lifecycle management and access tiers without surprise chargesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: choosing Azure VM families for Databricks clusters - memory, compute, storage-optimized and local SSDDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: controlling OCI Logging and Log Analytics volume, retention and costOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: controlling output tokens - max_tokens, structured outputs, reasoning effort and concise answersAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting CloudWatch Logs cost with retention, log classes and smarter shippingAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting Log Analytics ingestion cost with table plans, DCR filters and commitment tiersAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting NAT Gateway data processing cost with VPC endpointsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting serverless query cost on the lake - Athena and Synapse serverless SQLData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting Structured Streaming cost on Azure Databricks - triggers, availableNow, state store and stream packingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: data lake storage cost by zone - raw retention, file formats, tiers and table historyData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Databricks instance pools on Azure - faster cluster starts without paying for idle VMsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: dbt run time and warehouse cost - incremental models, materialisations and slim CIData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: DynamoDB cost - capacity mode, table class, TTL and index designAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: EBS snapshot and AWS Backup cost - lifecycle, archive tier and orphan clean-upAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: ElastiCache right-sizing - memory headroom, Valkey, data tiering and serverlessAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding and reducing AWS data transfer costs - cross-AZ, inter-region and internet egressAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding and reducing Azure networking costs - peering, private endpoints, NAT and egressAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding idle and orphaned OCI resources - volumes, backups, IPs, load balancers and stopped instancesOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: getting more from GPUs when fine-tuning - mixed precision, batch sizing, data loading and checkpointsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: getting value from provisioned throughput - PTU utilisation, spillover and right-sizingAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Kafka storage - retention, compaction, tiered storage and partition countsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: keeping agent costs under control - step limits, trimmed tool outputs and context managementAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: keeping LLM observability affordable - trace sampling, payload limits and retention tiersAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines cost - triggered vs continuous, serverless, product edition and refresh scopeDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Lambda performance and cost - memory power tuning, arm64, SnapStart and provisioned concurrencyAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: load balancer clean-up and tuning - idle ELBs, consolidation and target group settingsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: lowering RAG ingestion cost - incremental indexing, deduplication and choosing when to OCRAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: model routing and cascades - send each request to the smallest model that does it wellAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Base Database Service cost - CPU scaling, edition choice, licensing and storageOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Block Volume performance levels (VPUs) and auto-tuneOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI compute cost with flexible shapes, burstable instances and AmpereOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Functions cold starts, memory sizing and provisioned concurrencyOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI volume backup cost - backup policies, incremental vs full, retention and cross-region copiesOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OKE cost and efficiency - node pools, virtual nodes, cluster autoscaler and AmpereOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: provider prompt caching - structure prompts so the long, stable part is reusedAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: reducing Redis memory - data structures, compact encodings, TTLs and eviction policyDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing Azure managed disks with performance tiers and Premium SSD v2Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing Microsoft Fabric capacity - smoothing, workload placement and pause/resumeData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing OCI load balancers - flexible bandwidth, Network Load Balancer and consolidationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing RDS and Aurora - instance classes, I/O-Optimized and Serverless v2AWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: running LLM evaluations without a huge bill - tiered suites, smaller judges, caching and batchAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: S3 storage cost with Storage Lens, Intelligent-Tiering and lifecycle rulesAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: serverless jobs and notebooks on Azure Databricks - performance-optimized vs standard mode and budget policiesDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sharing GPUs on Kubernetes - MIG, time-slicing and bin packing for small modelsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: shrinking vector indexes - fewer dimensions, int8 and binary quantization, and rescoringAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sizing Azure Event Hubs - tiers, throughput units, auto-inflate and partitionsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Snowflake storage cost - Time Travel, Fail-safe, transient tables, clones and clusteringData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Snowflake warehouse design - sizing, auto-suspend, multi-cluster and query accelerationData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: stopping non-production AWS out of hours - EC2, RDS, EKS, ECS and moreAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: switching off non-production Azure out of hours - VMs, AKS, App Gateway, databasesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: switching off non-production OCI out of hours with Resource SchedulerOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Synapse dedicated SQL pool - pause/resume, DWU scaling, workload management and cachingData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: the hidden Azure costs around Databricks - ADLS transactions, private endpoints, NAT and cross-region trafficDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning Databricks autoscaling on Azure - min/max workers, scale-down and when to use fixed sizeDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning the RAG retrieval budget - top-k, reranking depth and how much context to sendAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: understanding and reducing OCI network costs - egress, service gateway and cross-region trafficOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: using OCI preemptible instances for batch, CI and OKE workersOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: when Photon pays off on Azure Databricks - test it per job, not per workspaceDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: moving bulk LLM jobs from synchronous calls to batch inferenceAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: when and how to move from a hosted LLM API to self-hosted open-weight modelsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- SQL Server licensing in the cloud: Azure Hybrid Benefit, license-included and BYOL on AWSDatabases · 23 Oct 2026