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You wired up a service, did the mental arithmetic, moved on. Then the bill arrived and it wasn't $20, $50, or even $100. It was thousands.

In this solo episode, Simon Elisha walks through his own recent bill shock and what it forced him to confront: the difference between intending to monitor a system and actually building the feedback loop that does it for you. He works through the architecture of the recovery - budgets and alerts as the missing mechanism, optionality through separation of concerns rather than expensive abstraction, and the better-faster-cheaper trade-off as a forcing function for naming what you actually want.

A meta-model episode for anyone running systems whose true cost they're not seeing.

Hosted by Simon Elisha - former AWS Chief Technologist, 35+ years in enterprise technology.

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