A Beginning-of-Year Reflection for Enterprise Architects and Technical Leaders As we step into 2026, it’s worth pausing to reflect on the seismic shifts that defined enterprise architecture in 2025—and the hard lessons learned when AI hype met production reality. What began as breathless excitement around generative AI and LLMs has matured into a more nuanced […]
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The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations
The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially. […]
Read more →The Hidden Tax on Innovation: Why FinOps Is the Most Important Discipline You’re Probably Ignoring
Every organization eventually faces the same uncomfortable realization: their cloud bill has become a runaway train. What starts as a modest monthly expense metastasizes into millions of dollars in annual spend, with nobody quite able to explain where all the money goes. FinOps Framework Overview The Three Pillars of FinOps The FinOps Foundation defines three […]
Read more →.NET AI Performance Optimization: Reducing Latency and Costs
Last year, I inherited a .NET AI application that was struggling. Response times averaged 2.3 seconds, costs were spiraling, and users were complaining. After three months of optimization, we cut latency by 87% and reduced costs by 72%. Here’s what I learned about optimizing .NET AI applications for production. Figure 1: .NET AI Performance Optimization […]
Read more →Cost Optimization for AI Workloads: Tracking and Reducing LLM Costs
Last quarter, our LLM costs hit $12,000. In a single month. We had no idea where the money was going. No tracking, no budgets, no alerts. That’s when I realized: cost optimization isn’t optional for AI workloads—it’s survival. Here’s how we cut costs by 65% without sacrificing quality. Figure 1: Cost Optimization Architecture The $12,000 […]
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