Notes from the field
Writing on cloud, DevOps, security, and AI engineering, informed by what actually goes wrong in production.
Cloud
Reading a cost anomaly alert like a FinOps engineer
An anomaly alert tells you spend went up. It doesn't tell you why, or whether you should care. Here's the triage process I run on every alert before escalating.
May 19, 2026 3 min read
AI
Cost control patterns for Azure OpenAI in production
Token spend on LLM features can go non-linear quickly. Here are the patterns I use to keep Azure OpenAI bills predictable without compromising the experience.
January 27, 2026 4 min read