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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. […]
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Production-tested patterns for running Apache Airflow on Kubernetes with the KubernetesExecutor. Covers architecture, deployment, auto-scaling, cost optimization, and real-world case studies achieving 40-60% cost savings.
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