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13 min readMy whole observability stack (logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, probes) runs on one $49 GCP VM for about $61 a month. What it costs instead of a bill: a 42 GB log file, one deleted container, and why I call the trade rent versus tuition.
8 min readFinance wants one number: AI spend per team. You can build it. Five vendor grains normalized, attribution with receipts, estimates that admit they're estimates. What you cannot do is let the number rate a person. The moment it does, the data dies.
6 min readEveryone has a loud opinion on whether AI coding tools pay off. Almost nobody has data. So I built a one-binary meter, ran it on myself for 60 days, collected two ugly receipts, and deleted the whole thing in an afternoon. The Disposable Meter, and why the teardown is the point.