Stop Counting Tokens, Start Counting Outcomes
Arafat Tehsin Blog
Token usage can explain what AI costs. It cannot tell leaders what AI is worth. The useful unit is cost per accepted business outcome, measured with quality, rework and realised value.
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Making Cost a First-Class Engineering Metric, Not a Finance Problem
adoranwodo
I’ve sat through enough “Cloud Optimization” meetings to know that most engineers would rather do a manual database migration than look at a cost spreadsheet. And honestly? I don’t blame them. The biggest lie we’ve told ourselves in the industry is that cost is a “money problem.” It’s not. In a...
Part 2 – Building A Multi-Subscription Azure Savings & Score Card Report – Visualisation and Email
Shane Baldacchino
Have you read Part 1 of this multi part post on creating a Multi-Subscription Azure Savings & Score Card Report? If not you can bring yourself up to speed hereBut to recap. Cost, it’s something that a lot of organisations struggle with when operating in the cloud. I have authored many posts on...
Downgrading From Azure Ultra Disks & Premium SSD V2 to Premium SSD/Standard SSD/Standard HDD
Shane Baldacchino
Storage can be one of those big rocks in terms of cost in the cloud, regardless of which public cloud you choose. By using platforms such as Azure Monitor you can validate actual I/O usage versus procured performance. So why this post? I am currently working with an organisation driving efficiency...