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Dev.to · Rick Wise
23h ago
SR&ED documentation as a solo founder: log technological uncertainty while you build
The SR&ED claim took me longer than the feature I was claiming for. Not the form. The...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
1d ago
How We Prove an AWS Waste Check Works: Fire on a Real Cluster, Stay Silent on Its Twin
A unit test tells you your code does what you think AWS does. It can't tell you what AWS actually...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
🔧 Backend Engineering
4w ago
Catching a Cost Spike the Same Day It Happens: Inside Our Z-Score Anomaly Detector
AWS Cost Explorer's own data can lag up to 24 hours behind real usage, and nobody's on call for "the...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
1mo ago
I Shipped a Redesign That Orphaned My Own Product
This month I rebuilt CloudWise around an AI agent. Not a chatbot bolted into a corner. The agent is...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
1mo ago
EBS Snapshot Sprawl: The Waste Cost Explorer Can't Show You
Last week's short covered the 101 on old EBS snapshots: the 90-day threshold, the $0.05/GB-month...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
1mo ago
The Bug That Turned Every Bad Password Into a Server Outage
Type your password wrong on CloudWise's login page, and for a while, the server told you it had a...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
1mo ago
Inside a Real $11,871/mo AWS Waste Scan
Most cost-optimization content shows you a screenshot of a dashboard and asks you to trust the...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
🔧 Backend Engineering
1mo ago
We Cut Lambda Cold Starts 56% — Three Wrong Turns Before the Real SnapStart Fix
CloudWise's /dashboard took up to 2.3 seconds to load cold. That's the API Lambda's own cliff — not...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
NAT Gateway: The Bill Nobody Reads
Group your AWS bill by service in Cost Explorer and NAT Gateway charges don't get their own row....
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why I Built a Risk Score Instead of a Buy Button
The obvious feature to build here is a button. "You're spending $4,200/month on m5.xlarge — buy a...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo ago
How Timestream Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers
Timestream can look simple on the bill until you break down the line items. Most teams think in terms...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo ago
The Hidden Costs of Idle EMR Clusters (And How to Stop the Bleed)
EMR looks simple on the bill. You spin up a cluster, run your Spark jobs, and shut it down. But most...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
6mo ago
Amazon MQ Pricing: What's Really on Your Bill
Amazon MQ looks simple on the bill until you pull it apart. Most teams spin up a managed ActiveMQ or...
Dev.to · Rick Wise
📐 ML Fundamentals
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo ago
How SageMaker Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers
You deployed a SageMaker notebook to prototype a model. A week later, your AWS bill has a $280 line...
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