Practical guides and real-world findings from the KernelRun team and customers.
Patterns, surprises, and the uncomfortable truths about how engineering teams actually manage cloud spend.
Built-in optimization tools sound great on paper. Here's why they consistently underdeliver for real workloads.
Three root causes we see repeatedly when monthly bills jump 20% or more overnight.
What we found analyzing caching layer spend across 50 customer accounts. The waste patterns were consistent.
Platform monitoring gives you utilization numbers. It doesn't give you the context to act on them.
The org chart says one thing. The billing dashboard says another. We break down the ownership debate.
A step-by-step guide to establishing resource utilization baselines that actually inform right-sizing decisions.
Container orchestration makes deployment easy. It makes cost attribution surprisingly hard.
Dev and staging environments run 24/7 but get used 8 hours a day. Here's how to fix that safely.
Managed database costs hide in configurations that teams set once and never revisit.
An honest comparison of the two main discount models, including the tradeoffs nobody talks about.
Tagging coverage is never 100%. Here's how to fill the gaps without waiting for perfect governance.