Erik Peterson
@silvexis
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Founder, Director & CTO @CloudzeroInc. Startup addict, AppSec survivor, #Serverless fanatic, #FinOps believer. AWS Ambassador. Go Nuclear. I engineer profit.
Boston, MA
Joined December 2006
Kids shouldn’t be going off to college, they should be going off to work, and businesses should be running 4 year education and housing programs that:. 1. Replace the gift of crippling student debt with basic income.2. Provide healthcare, housing, and food, just like school.3.
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I don't write documents anymore. I compile them from thoughts, observations, and data. I recompile them when new information becomes available. I'm never going back to #lifeBeforeAI.
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This is the power of using cost as a constraint to drive innovation. It's not about saving money; it's about driving GROWTH.
Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of.
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Werner’s keynote time at #AWSreInvent! His talks have always been the heart of the event for me. Sharing this throwback from 2014—back when bumping into AWS visionaries in the hallway was just another day. Can’t wait to hear what’s next, @Werner!
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5 seconds into the #reinvent2024 keynote and cloud economics has already been mentioned during the warm-up video 😀. "Watch your infrastructure. pay dividends" <- that is the promise of the cloud!.
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Every engineering decision is a buying decision!.
Cost-Aware Architectures for Viewers like You — Today we are sharing the next deep dive blog post and podcast episode in The Frugal Architect series, featuring @mike_norton with insights from his work as VP of Cloud Services and Operations at @PBS.
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San Francisco and Bay Area friends, the CloudZero FinOps and Sushi 🍣 world tour is coming to you! Please join me and my special guest Khawaja Shams (@ksshams), CEO of Momento, for a relaxing night of Sake, Sushi, and ☁Cloud conversation at Roka Akor in San Francisco this coming.
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Every engineering decision is a buying decision!.
In the cloud, every architectural decision is a buying decision and choosing the wrong service can be an expensive mistake. In this video, let's compare API Gateway REST APIs, HTTP APIs and ALBs from a cost perspective and when you should use which.
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This post is hitting me deeply to my core. Years ago I wrote down “beware incompatible advice” and this gets to the root of what I was grappling with but couldn’t articulate until now .
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What's that one thing you wish you could go back in time and tell Amazon to fix before they launched AWS? I'll go first:
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USB-A is dead to me. Why is it so hard to buy charging gear that has ONLY USB-C ports?.
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RT @discoposse: Inspired as always by folks like @CloudZeroInc CTO, @silvexis from a recent podcast we did talking about the economics of c….
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RT @dominguezdaniel: Now @ "Beyond Million Dollar Lines of Code" talk w/ @silvexis. Every engineering decision is a buying decision! #InfoQ….
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RT @loiane: Great takeaways during Practical Strategies for Engineering Cost-Effective Cloud Systems talk by @silvexis at #InfoQDevSummit #….
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