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You Switched to Amazon Quick Enterprise — And Lost Everything. Here's the Fix.
By Dima KramskoyAug 31, 20266 min read

You Switched to Amazon Quick Enterprise — And Lost Everything. Here's the Fix.

Switching Amazon Quick to Enterprise SSO creates a fresh profile and hides months of data. Here's the folder-copy workaround that restores conversations, agents, skills, and your knowledge graph.

August 2026 in review: AI spend gets itemized, CloudFlow goes truly multi-cloud, Kubernetes gets guardrails
By Vadim SoloveyAug 31, 20267 min read

August 2026 in review: AI spend gets itemized, CloudFlow goes truly multi-cloud, Kubernetes gets guardrails

A roundup of August 2026 releases: itemized AI provider spend in Cloud Analytics, CloudFlow support for Oracle Cloud and Azure, SQL and email triggers, and smarter Kubernetes optimization in PerfectSc

Your developers want a self-hosted LLM. Your CFO wants the math.
By Vadim SoloveyAug 18, 20268 min read

Your developers want a self-hosted LLM. Your CFO wants the math.

When does self-hosting an open-weight LLM beat API and subscription pricing? We break down H100 costs across clouds, node sizing by team size, and where the break-even actually sits.

Cost Per Task, Not Cost Per Token: Unit Economics of Frontier LLM Workloads
By Vadim SoloveyAug 11, 202614 min read

Cost Per Task, Not Cost Per Token: Unit Economics of Frontier LLM Workloads

Per-token prices mislead for agentic workloads. This analysis compares Claude and OpenAI on cost per solved task, factoring in retries, reliability, caching, and cleanup costs.

Stop Wrestling with Complex Permissions: A Breath of Fresh Air for Your Code
By Dima KramskoyAug 5, 202612 min read

Stop Wrestling with Complex Permissions: A Breath of Fresh Air for Your Code

Tired of tangled if/else permission checks scattered across your codebase? See how Amazon Verified Permissions centralizes authorization, using a real AWS PetStore example.

DoiT Becomes Founding Member of the Tokenomics Foundation
By Kurt HeinemannAug 4, 20265 min read

DoiT Becomes Founding Member of the Tokenomics Foundation

DoiT joins the Tokenomics Foundation as a founding member, bringing the runtime measurement experience behind Attribute to help define open standards for AI spend attribution and governance.

Our recruiters ship software now
By Vadim SoloveyJul 28, 20268 min read

Our recruiters ship software now

DoiT's talent acquisition team, paired with one embedded Applied AI engineer, now ships production software: an AI job description builder, candidate screener, sourcing tool, and more.

Stop Over-Provisioning for Startup: GKE's New CPU Startup Boost
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiJul 27, 20267 min read

Stop Over-Provisioning for Startup: GKE's New CPU Startup Boost

GKE's new CPU startup boost lets you give containers extra CPU during initialization, then scale back to baseline in place—no more over-provisioning for JVM warm-up.

DynamoDB: What Most Teams Get Wrong Before They Write a Line of Code
By Joseph AllamJul 20, 20268 min read

DynamoDB: What Most Teams Get Wrong Before They Write a Line of Code

DynamoDB is one of AWS's most powerful databases — but most teams that struggle with it are making the same schema design mistakes. Here's what to know before you build.

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Monitoring Short-Lived Kubernetes Jobs at Scale
By Ivan YurochkoJul 17, 20266 min read

Monitoring Short-Lived Kubernetes Jobs at Scale

Kubernetes jobs creating metric loss and cardinality explosions? Learn how vmagent streaming aggregation solves observability for ephemeral workloads at scale.

What is Tokenomics?
By Josh PalmerJul 13, 20267 min read

What is Tokenomics?

Tokenomics is the discipline of measuring and attributing AI token consumption to customers, features, and agents. Here's why traditional FinOps tagging breaks down for AI spend.