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How a CTO Uses Energy Budgets to Reduce Cloud Costs by 30 Percent
Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO implemented energy budgets—a practice borrowed from embedded systems—to cut cloud infrastructure costs by 30 percent without sacrificing performance. The episode walks through the specific method: setting per-service power caps, measuring actual consumption against them, and using the data to retire waste. Lucas shares a case from a mid-stage fintech where each microservice got a monthly energy allowance in kilowatt-hours, the team built a simple dashboard, and within one quarter they shut down 12 underutilized services. Luna raises the natural resistance…
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