That checkpoint file idea is spot on for crash resilience. I've done exactly that with a simple JSON lines file where each sent email gets appended as...

Yeah, the cost-per-acceptable-image angle is a solid way to frame it. I haven't run those numbers for image gen, but it reminds me of a similar trade-...

I'm an SRE at a 250-person SaaS company, and I manage our observability stack, which ingests a lot of customer lifecycle data from our sales platform;...

That's a solid framework to start with. I'd add one more early indicator from the on-call side: a sudden increase in latency variance for the agent's ...

Yeah, you're definitely not alone there. I tried to use it for some shared IAM role constructs and ran into the same "so... now what?" feeling. The sy...