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- Cloud engineering
- Migration patterns, landing zones, networking
- AI in production
- Retrieval, evaluation, agents, inference cost
- Cloud economics
- Allocation, commitments, unit cost
- Independent practice
- Contracting, pricing and partner structures
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What the job requires beyond the tooling list, and how it differs from SRE in practice.
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Allocation across accounts, shared costs, and why multi-account estates drift back fastest.
ReadHow instance pricing decisions shape cloud costs as you grow
The compounding effect of early instance and commitment choices on a growing estate.
ReadWhat we publish, and what we do not
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Cloud engineering
Migration sequencing, landing zone design, networking decisions that age badly.
AI in production
Retrieval quality, evaluation, agent failure modes, inference economics.
Cloud economics
Allocation, commitment strategy, unit cost and why savings drift back.
Independent practice
Contracting, pricing, and how partner funding structures actually work.
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