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'
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.