Daniel Paz •
Cost-Aware SLOs for Kubernetes
Pair latency and availability targets with spend guardrails so reliability does not blow up your cloud bill.
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Insights on Kubernetes cost allocation, FinOps, and engineering efficiency.
Daniel Paz •
Quick Tip: Debugging CrashLoopBackOff
Pod crashing immediately? Here is how to debug it when 'kubectl logs' returns nothing.
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Jesus Paz •
AI Rightsizing for Kubernetes: Start with the Boring Baseline
Before you trust ML to resize pods, fix your signals, budgets, and guardrails. Otherwise AI just automates bad guesses.
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Jesus Paz •
Graceful Shutdowns: Surviving Spot Interruptions
Spot Instances are cheap until they break your app. Here is the boilerplate code you need to handle SIGTERM and preStop hooks correctly.
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Jesus Paz •
The Art of Kubernetes Request Sizing
Stop guessing your CPU and RAM requests. A data-driven guide to right-sizing your pods without killing performance.
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Linda Cuanca •
The 80/20 Rule of Kubernetes Cost: Stop Obsessing Over Micro-Optimizations
You don't need AI-driven anomaly detection to save money. You need to fix your Node Rightsizing and Requests. Here is the strategy.
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The Hidden Cost of EKS Control Plane
It's not just $73/month. The real cost of EKS is in the add-ons, the upgrades, and the complexity.
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Why We Built a CLI for FinOps (And Why GUIs Fail Engineers)
Cost data shouldn't live in a separate dashboard behind a login screen. It belongs in your terminal, right next to kubectl.
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Kubectl Command: Finding Top CPU Consumers
A one-liner to instantly see which pods are hogging your cluster's CPU. No dashboard required.
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Linda Cuanca •
Quarterly Cost Planning for Kubernetes Teams
A lightweight QBR template that aligns engineering, finance, and product on spend, savings, and bets.
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Pre-Production Cost Hygiene: Stop Paying for Idle Environments
Staging and QA often cost as much as prod. Here’s how to cut that in half without slowing releases.
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Jesus Paz •
Guardrails for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Without Slowing Teams Down
Use policies, quotas, and network controls that keep costs predictable while preserving developer autonomy.
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Jesus Paz •
Self-Hosted Focalboard vs. SaaS: Kubernetes Cost Analysis
Is it cheaper to self-host Focalboard on AWS EKS or just pay for Notion/Trello? We break down the TCO, including hidden cluster costs.
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Linda Cuanca •
Platform Engineering KPIs That Actually Lower Cloud Spend
Measure platform outcomes that correlate with lower Kubernetes bills instead of vanity DevOps metrics.
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Daniel Paz •
The FinOps Cost Incident Runbook for Kubernetes
A step-by-step playbook to triage sudden spend spikes and prevent them from happening again.
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Jesus Paz •
Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Agents: The Observability Tax
Every agent you install (Datadog, Splunk, Istio) taxes your CPU and Memory. Learn how to calculate the true cost of your DaemonSets.
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Jesus Paz •
AWS NAT Gateway Pricing: The Ultimate Cost Reduction Guide
Why is your AWS bill so high? It's probably NAT Gateways. Learn the 'Double Dip' trap, see the architecture diagrams, and discover 3 cheaper alternatives.
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Linda Cuanca •
Namespace Chargeback Cookbook for Kubernetes
A practical recipe to turn namespace labels into monthly cost statements that engineers trust.
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Jesus Paz •
Build Cost Gates into Your Kubernetes CI/CD
Add budget checks to pull requests and deployments so cost surprises never hit production.
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Jesus Paz •
Kubernetes CPU Limits: To Throttle or Not?
The great debate: Should you set CPU limits in Kubernetes? We dive into CFS quotas, throttling latency, and why 'Requests Only' might be the better FinOps move.
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Jesus Paz •
The Hidden Cost of Spot Instances: Why Cheap Compute Can Be Expensive
Spot instances promise 90% savings, but interruptions, data transfer, and engineering fatigue can wipe that out. Here is when NOT to use them.
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Jesus Paz •
Top 10 Mistakes That Make Kubernetes Expensive and Slow
A punchy list of cost and reliability anti-patterns plus the fixes that ClusterCost users apply in the real world.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Build an Internal Kubernetes Cost Dashboard Using Open-Source Tools
Combine ClusterCost’s OSS dashboard with Grafana and Parquet exports to give every stakeholder actionable insights.
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Why FinOps Needs Kubernetes-Aware Cost Tools (Not Just AWS Billing Data)
Traditional AWS reports miss pods, namespaces, and tenants—FinOps teams need workload-aware telemetry to drive action.
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Jesus Paz •
Understanding Kubernetes Resource Requests vs Limits (and Why They Affect Your Bill)
Requests keep the cluster stable, limits prevent noisy neighbors, and both drive cost—here’s how to tune them.
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Jesus Paz •
Best Practices for Tagging AWS Infrastructure for Accurate Cost Allocation
Adopt a battle-tested tagging schema that keeps ClusterCost, AWS Billing, and finance dashboards in sync.
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Jesus Paz •
The Real Cost of Idle Kubernetes Nodes and How to Eliminate Them
Quantify zombie capacity, catch misconfigured autoscalers, and automate remediation with ClusterCost.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Forecast Kubernetes Costs Using Basic Metrics (No AI Needed)
Blend ClusterCost exports with simple math to predict spend per namespace, team, or customer.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Compute Cost per ECS Task When Using EC2 or Fargate
Detailed formulas for allocating EC2 and Fargate spend to each ECS task, including shared networking and storage.
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Why Your Cloud Bill is Wrong: The Problems with AWS Cost Explorer for Kubernetes
AWS Cost Explorer cannot see pods, namespaces, or spot dynamics—learn the gaps and how ClusterCost fills them.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Cut Kubernetes Costs by 30–50% Using Node Right-Sizing
Model better instance families, blend spot/on-demand capacity, and validate savings with ClusterCost.
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Jesus Paz •
The Ultimate Guide to EKS Pricing: Nodes, Control Plane, Storage, Networking
Understand every line item that ends up on your EKS bill and how to forecast costs before creating a cluster.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Detect Over-Provisioned Kubernetes Pods Automatically
Use requests vs. usage signals, performance guardrails, and ClusterCost automations to right-size pods safely.
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Kubernetes vs ECS: Which Platform Gives You Better Cost Efficiency?
Compare pricing levers, operational overhead, and optimization pathways before committing to Kubernetes or ECS.
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Jesus Paz •
A Practical Guide to Allocating AWS Costs to Teams, Clients, or Environments
Adopt a tagging blueprint, reporting cadence, and governance model that keeps engineering and finance aligned.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Estimate the Cost of Each Namespace in Kubernetes (With Real Examples)
Walk through two anonymized namespaces and learn the math behind their monthly AWS charges.
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The Hidden Ways Kubernetes Makes Your AWS Bill Explode (and How to Fix It)
Identify the ten most expensive Kubernetes anti-patterns and learn the exact playbooks to eliminate them.
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Jesus Paz •
How to See the Cost of Each Kubernetes Pod (Even if You Use Spot or Mixed Nodes)
Follow this framework to price every pod accurately across on-demand, reserved, and spot node groups.
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Jesus Paz •
ECS Cost Allocation 101: How Much Does Each Service Really Cost?
Break down ECS spend per service, task, and environment—even when you mix EC2 and Fargate.
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Jesus Paz •
The Complete Guide to Kubernetes Cost Allocation: Pods, Namespaces, and Services
Learn how to align Kubernetes spend with the workloads and teams that generate it, without drowning in spreadsheets.
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Jesus Paz •
The Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes Cluster Cost Allocation (2025)
Stop guessing. Learn the '5 Pillars' framework for calculating the true cost of your Kubernetes clusters, from nodes to shared services.
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