Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• FinOps Is Just Capacity Planning With a Better Hat

  14 Feb, 2023

  Owning a large cloud P&L taught me that cost is an engineering-culture problem, not a dashboard. Where the tooling earns its keep and where it is theater.

• Everyone Wants ChatGPT in Their Product. Most Should Wait.

  17 Jan, 2023

  Weeks after ChatGPT launched, every exec wants it shipped into the product. Here is the production math most teams have not done yet, and the short list of who should not wait.

• Alternative Credit Scoring When the Bureau Has No File

  6 Dec, 2022

  Scoring hundreds of thousands of small merchants with no credit-bureau file, where the ensemble was easy and the fairness, reason codes, and feedback loops were the part that took a year.

• ClickHouse Saved Us Real Money. Here's What It Cost.

  15 Nov, 2022

  Moving a large analytics workload to ClickHouse cut query latency and the bill hard, but only after we stopped designing tables the way Postgres taught us.