Azure bills are frustrating because the waste is almost never obvious. It hides in places you forget to check. This post covers the most common sources of wasted Azure spend I've seen across multiple subscriptions — with the exact CLI commands to find them. When you delete a VM in Azure, the disks are not automatically deleted unless you explicitly checked the box at creation time. Most teams don'
The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p