Build Tools
How to Reduce ML Pipeline Costs Without Breaking Models
--- A VP of Engineering I know at a fintech in Bengaluru called me last March, genuinely panicked. Their AWS bill had jumped from $41K to $118K in one quarte...
How to Build Cost Efficient Kubernetes Cluster
A practitioner's buying guide to the choices that actually move your bill. I've run Kubernetes clusters that cost $180/month and clusters that cost $41,000/m...
Feature Store Costs Are Out of Control. Here's How to Fix It.
I spent the first half of 2026 helping a Series C fintech cut their feature store bill from $48,000 a month to $9,500. They weren't doing anything exotic. Ju...
How to Build Cost Efficient RAG Pipeline
The honeymoon phase of RAG is over. Everyone built a chatbot in 2024 that answered questions from their PDFs. By 2025, the bills arrived. And in 2026, you're...
How to Build Cost Efficient RAG Pipeline in 2026
I spent the first half of 2026 helping three companies rip out RAG stacks they'd spent six months building. Not because the stacks failed. Because they cost ...