Cloud Cost and Capacity Should Not Be Your First Job
The job is judgment about other people's systems, delivered with standing you can only earn by having done the work underneath. Come into it midway through a career.
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Notes from the practice.
Process notes, practical checks, and observations from building and maintaining the two volumes — written the way the book is written: plain, dated, and checkable.
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CScale and the Five Conditions
CScale emerged from stealth with $145M and NVIDIA and Intel Capital behind it. With no product and no price, the way to read the announcement is the same evidence standard the book applies to every emerging architecture.
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Vaire Says It Can Build Near-Zero-Energy Chips. Is This Even Real?
Vaire's whitepaper reads like free-energy rhetoric, but the physics is real, the test silicon is real, and a commercial processor is still missing. The distinction matters for anyone planning capacity.
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Keeping a Pricing Book Honest, One Night at a Time
A book about model prices goes stale the day it ships. Here is the nightly process I use to catch provider changes, validate every dated statement, and keep the book trustworthy.
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