Reducing infrastructure cost during development and in production
summary
Concrete actions and numbers: implement a reservation system with auto-deletion and enforced tagging so orphaned dev resources disappear and costs are attributed; send weekly individualized emails so engineers cut waste (one engineer halved dev spend); choose cheaper dev shapes or spot instances up to 90% cheaper and avoid NVMe where unnecessary; run more tests locally and batch API calls; enable horizontal pod autoscaling and move workloads to ARM where feasible — one team reports roughly 30% savings in production.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Cloud cost challenges
- 1:03Development environment cost traps and solutions
- 4:16Cheaper dev resources
- 6:26Kubernetes cost scaling
- 7:55Quick production wins
- 9:17Cost transparency and process
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