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How Kubernetes halved our cloud spend, saved $3.9M/yr
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How Kubernetes halved our cloud spend, saved $3.9M/yr

We were burning about $6M/yr across AWS, Azure and GCP. We immediately cut this spend in half by repatriating workloads into a new Kubernetes-based private cloud, then saved even more as the private cloud grew.

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Neil Carson Jan 8, 2025 • 7 min read
SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets
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SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets

...a 76% product gross margin - up from 70% just over a year earlier. Furthermore, they announced approval for a $2bn stock buyback programme. Much of the savings from Graviton isn't resulting in lower prices for Snowflake customers and instead is going to stock buybacks

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Neil Carson May 16, 2023 • 4 min read
Improving S3 performance from C++
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Improving S3 performance from C++

How do we maximise S3 random IOPS throughput at different block sizes and queue depths?

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Neil Carson Nov 24, 2021 • 5 min read
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