DevOps

Paying to Ping? We Switched to Uptime Kuma and Saved Big

Introduction We used to rely on Pingdom for uptime monitoring. It worked well with simple checks, nice UI, and reliable and clean alerts. But one day, someone on our DevOps team casually said: "Hey, why are we paying for something that only pings URLs?" And that kicked off a big conversation. The Cost Wake-Up Pingdom wasn’t...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: cloudcostsavings
07-Aug-2025

DevOps

How Rack Awareness in Amazon MSK Saved $36K/Year for a Leading AdTech Company

Introduction Building and deploying applications that use Apache Kafka for real-time data processing is made simple with Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), a fully managed service by AWS. Rack awareness is one overlooked configuration change that can greatly increase fault tolerance and cost effectiveness, even though MSK...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: cloudcostsavings
04-Jun-2025