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Rafael Lopes · Production AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.

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Production AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Distributed LLM inference · AI efficiency · Web performance · Core Web Vitals · Kubernetes · Argo CD · GitOps · Platform engineering · Site Reliability Engineering · Observability · Cloud cost reduction · AWS · Azure · Design systems · Terraform

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2 posts

You Can't See What Your AI Actually Costs — So I Built the Meter That Can

Every team I talk to can tell me what their cloud bill was last month. Almost none can tell me what their AI calls cost — or, more importantly, what those...

Governance Is the Missing Half of AI Efficiency

There is a gap at the centre of enterprise AI, and IBM has been pointing at it for years: organisations deploy AI far faster than they govern it [Source 1]....