Cloud
Understand the cloud well enough to decide
Not how to configure it — how to reason about it. What the cloud actually changed, how to read a bill and find the waste, and how to choose between managed and self-run without hand-waving.
3 lessons
61 min total
Most expensive cloud surprises are a mismatch between how a workload actually behaves and how it is being paid for. That mismatch is legible once you know where to look.
Start with what genuinely changed when capacity became an API call, learn to read a bill in a fixed order, and finish on the choice most teams make on instinct: rent the operating burden, or carry it yourself.