Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2

Attribution

Connecting spend or consumption to the workload, team, customer, or decision that caused it. Shared costs need an agreed rule. Attribution can support accountability without giving the recipient control over the cost.

The definition appears in the Volume 1 glossary and Volume 2 glossary. This page collects where the book uses the term and where the blog takes it up.

Discussed in the book

Chapters where “Attribution” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.

Volume I, Chapter 1: What Computing Costs
Sections: How to read this chapter · Several dimensions of the same dollar · A bill we can follow · The same bill, five ways · Enough information to have the next conversation
Volume I, Chapter 4: The Simplest Practice
Volume I, Chapter 9: Orchestration and Agentic Topologies

Ask the book about attribution

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