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17Your cloud provider offers a bigger discount for a three-year commitment. How do you decide?▼hardNewSnowflakeUberNetflix2 replies○ sign inThe discount is real and so is the option you are selling. The question is what your usage looks like in year three, and the honest answer for most teams is that they do not know.Open full answer →
19Cloud spend missed forecast by 20%, but traffic grew 50%. Did engineering become less efficient?▼mediumNewNetflixUberFlipkart○ sign inA budget miss can coexist with lower cost per request. Separate demand, usage intensity and price effects before assigning an efficiency target.Open full answer →
