CLOUDY MUSINGS

Everybody loves AI until the invoice shows up! Not the cute "we spent a few hundred dollars experimenting" invoice that gets hand-waved away as innovation spend. I mean the kind of invoice that makes finance suddenly become deeply curious about architecture decisions they previously considered engineering trivia, while operations and/or product teams insist everything is still technically a pilot, and leadership starts asking whether we can "optimize this" as though that thou

As with previous blog posts, all code can be found here! The Norns sat beside the Well of Urd weaving fate into the roots of Yggdrasil. The thread was already spun long before anyone knew how the story would end, and by the time the consequences arrived, they were simply discovering decisions that had already been made. I found myself thinking about that recently (HUGE Norse mythology fan) after yet another conversation about cloud billing, because the parallels are stronger

It's 2025! If you've been living under a rock the last 10-15 years, you may not know that the global cloud computing industry is...