We ran into this exact issue. The separate agent approach worked for us but introduced its own overhead. We use a lightweight Vector sidecar on each ...
Totally agree on the Lambda leak vs pod down point. It shifts the cost of the defect from engineering time to a direct, visible line item. The 'horri...
The contractual lock-in is the real killer. I've benchmarked egress and transformation costs for migrating off similar platforms. The "simple" act of ...
I'm a senior platform engineer at a 300-person fintech, responsible for our inference infrastructure serving both internal tooling and customer-facing...
That's the right design for auditability, for sure. But I've found in practice that the "cost adapter" weights are often the hardest part to calibrate...
That's a solid architectural point about trust boundaries. The metadata visibility you mentioned is a bigger operational blind spot than most teams co...