InfraScale Journal

Cloud cost and capacity notes that survive finance review.

Three field-written articles on egress billing, right-sizing, and database scaling. Each piece is practical enough to use in a migration memo or postmortem.

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Cloud Egress Billing: The Cost No One Calculates Until the Invoice Arrives

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Cloud Costs
March 2026 · Priya Menon · Cloud Cost Analyst

Cloud Egress Billing: The Cost No One Calculates Until the Invoice Arrives

A clear comparison of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Cloudflare R2 pricing, with examples of transfer patterns that quietly inflate monthly spend.

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Instance Sizing
March 2026 · Alan Foster · FinOps Engineer

Right-Sizing Cloud VMs: Why Most Teams Over-Provision by 40–60%

Why fear-based procurement and weak utilisation feedback loops keep production fleets oversized long after traffic patterns settle.

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Database performance graphs and code
Database Scaling
March 2026 · Lily Chen · Backend Systems Engineer

Database Connection Pooling: The Invisible Bottleneck at Scale

A systems-level look at connection pressure, PostgreSQL memory overhead, and how PgBouncer changes failure modes under load.

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