There Is No Free Lunch

This is Episode 2B of The Observability Cost Crisis. This episode continues directly from Episode 2A. The Whiteboard Asep stood up. He already knew where this conversation was going to end. Twenty-three years in infrastructure had a way of collapsing the distance between a proposal and its consequences. He could see the shape of Fajar’s idea — the elegance of it, even — and he could also see exactly where it would fall apart. ...

April 13, 2026 · 8 min · Tomodoo