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When CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson joined the SourceForge podcast in January 2026, he didn’t just talk about cloud costs. He reframed them as a launchpad for innovation, survival, and competitive advantage.

Whether he was describing the “trough of lost innovation,” the “freemium tax,” or why efficiency is the next frontier of engineering culture, Erik’s expert insights go...


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Consider this: traditional cloud cost monitoring was like checking your fuel gauge once a month — after the trip was already over.

That model worked when infrastructure scaled slowly. You provisioned resources predictably and paid for stable, linear usage.

AI breaks that model.

Today, AI costs behave like a high-performance engine with a hypersen...


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With all we’ve seen from AI in the last several years, it can be easy to forget that it’s still in its very early days. As torrid as its evolution has been thus far, it will only intensify. As SVP of Engineering at a B2B SaaS company, I’ve had a front-row seat for much of this evolution. Here are three ways I see AI heading in 2026.

1. AI Handles The Easy Stuff

Agentic A...


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Choosing between AWS and OCI is a common decision for organizations moving workloads to the cloud. Both Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offer global infrastructure, robust security, and broad service portfolios. On paper, the platforms can look interchangeable.

They are not. AWS and Oracle Cloud differ in pricing, compute models, storage options, net...


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API metrics have long been a core part of building and operating reliable SaaS products. Teams track the likes of request volume, latency, and uptime to ensure APIs perform as expected under load.

First: API cost intelligence metrics measure how API usage translates into cloud, AI, and third-party spend — and attribute that cost to customers, features, workflows, and te...


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