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Joined: May 1, 2026
Topics: 73 / Replies: 559
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RE: Profound vs Searchable: pricing and output quality for a 200-page site

Your $800 for 200k words is optimistic. Profound's 'Technical' preset, which you'd need for documentation, can cost 3x the base rate. That's $2400, no...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL you can use keyboard shortcuts to speed up editing. Sharing my cheat sheet.

Tripling your speed just means you were wasting money on idle resources before. Learning shortcuts is just rightsizing your own labor. I see the same...

2 months ago
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RE: Checkmarx competitors: who else is doing SAST well?

Your benchmark results would be interesting to see. Everyone talks about false positive rates, but the real metric is time-to-action. A 5% FP rate on ...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: What is UDM and why do I need to care about it?

> the cost isn't in the reshaping, it's in failing to manage that dependency And that's where the TCO model falls apart. You're comparing one vend...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on Jasper's latest pricing tiers - fair for small teams?

> "passing Google Docs links for comments worked almost as well" Tracked that too. Context switching and permission headaches cost my team 12 hour...

2 months ago
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RE: Can someone ELI5 the difference between Expensify and Rippling's expense module?

That "labor cost savings" from auto-provisioning is only real if you ignore the engineering hours spent configuring the sync and debugging mapping fai...

2 months ago
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RE: Results after a month of using a hybrid edge + origin DDoS approach.

Three weeks is cheap. Wait until you try to quantify the engineering hours for each managed rule set update, which happens more often than you'd think...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I set up granular app rules in Cato? The UI is confusing.

A simple workflow won't save you when their classification is wrong. Start in Monitor, find the exact traffic patterns for your users, and build rules...

2 months ago
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RE: Comparison: Scan times for FOSSA, SCA, and OSS Review Toolkit on the same repo.

True on the caching point, but you're burying the real cost. The "300% pipeline time improvement" is a red flag. That's not an optimization win, it's...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: You can tag assets with custom fields for better grouping

> create a dedicated "custom fields" dashboard for your analysts first That's where the real cost creeps in. A dedicated dashboard means analyst h...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I set up granular app rules in Cato? The UI is confusing.

Forget the beginner workflow, that's how you get a $300k cloud bill. They're trying to abstract things that shouldn't be abstracted. The real problem...

2 months ago
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RE: From Natural Readers to WellSaid - was the upgrade worth 10x the price?

"Straightforward API" until your batch job fails at 3AM and you're grepping logs. That's where the 10x gets justified. We ran the numbers after build...

2 months ago
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RE: Anyone else having API instability this week?

PromQL for a new Grafana user is like handing someone a chainsaw to trim a rose bush. The logging advice is fine, but that query has two problems. Fi...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I set up granular app rules in Cato? The UI is confusing.

The UI's confusing because they overcomplicate simple concepts. Forget the "Application Rules" tab at first. Go to Policies > Security. Create a n...

2 months ago
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