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Frugal Raises US $5M Seed to Bring Cost Engineering to Cloud and AI Applications
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Frugal Raises US $5M Seed to Bring Cost Engineering to Cloud and AI Applications
The world’s first Application Cost Engineering platform curbs inflating costs associated with AI and cloud services at the source code - without...
Mike Weider
Mike Weider
November 12, 2025
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Cost Engineering
Featured
Introducing Frugal: The Frugal Origin Story
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Cost Engineering
Featured
Introducing Frugal: The Frugal Origin Story
Frugal Origin Story The Frugal story started a few months back when I was chatting with a startup founder who was venting about how much they were...
Mike Weider
Mike Weider
October 21, 2025
Cost Engineering
GCP
AWS
Top 10 Cloud Cost Traps We Saw in 2025
Cost Engineering
GCP
AWS
Top 10 Cloud Cost Traps We Saw in 2025
2025 was the year teams stopped just rightsizing infrastructure and started digging into how their applications actually spend. We've seen a lot of...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
December 8, 2025
Engineering
Scaffolding for AI, the Frugal Way
Engineering
Scaffolding for AI, the Frugal Way
AI agents can analyze code, understand natural language queries, and generate recommendations. But making them reliable enough for production use...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 25, 2025
Product
Preview of Frugal Code
Product
Preview of Frugal Code
Frugal Code is our new cost engineering platform that attributes managed service costs to your code, finds inefficient usage, provides Frugal Fixes...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 12, 2025
Cost Engineering
Datadog
The Frugal Approach to Datadog Log Management Costs
Cost Engineering
Datadog
The Frugal Approach to Datadog Log Management Costs
With usage-billed logging services like Datadog, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the logs;...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
GCP
The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Logging Costs
Cost Engineering
GCP
The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Logging Costs
With usage-billed logging services like Google Cloud Logging, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
AWS
The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Logs Costs
Cost Engineering
AWS
The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Logs Costs
With usage-billed logging services like CloudWatch, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the logs;...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
AWS
The Frugal Approach to AWS S3 Storage Costs
Cost Engineering
AWS
The Frugal Approach to AWS S3 Storage Costs
With usage-billed storage services like S3, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications store the data; applications...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
GCP
The Frugal Approach to GCS Storage Costs
Cost Engineering
GCP
The Frugal Approach to GCS Storage Costs
With usage-billed storage services like Google Cloud Storage, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications store the...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
Anthropic
The Frugal Approach to Anthropic Claude API Costs
Cost Engineering
Anthropic
The Frugal Approach to Anthropic Claude API Costs
With usage-billed AI services like Anthropic Claude, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the API calls;...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost Engineering
OpenAI
The Frugal Approach to OpenAI API Costs
Cost Engineering
OpenAI
The Frugal Approach to OpenAI API Costs
With usage-billed AI services like OpenAI, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the API calls;...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
November 6, 2025
Cost KPIs
Are Your Cloud Costs Healthy or Unhealthy?
Cost KPIs
Are Your Cloud Costs Healthy or Unhealthy?
The Figma IPO generated some buzz on Reddit recently but not for the reasons you might think. Redditors were aghast at the disclosure of their eye...
Mike Weider
Mike Weider
October 21, 2025
Cost Engineering
Stop Paying Premium Prices for Repeated Log Content
Cost Engineering
Stop Paying Premium Prices for Repeated Log Content
I recently discovered something surprising while examining customer logs that included OAuth scope lists within the JSON context of log messages....
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
October 21, 2025
Cost Engineering
AI or Engineer, Cloud Cost Savings Start with the Bill and End in the Code
Cost Engineering
AI or Engineer, Cloud Cost Savings Start with the Bill and End in the Code
It’s a tempting prompt isn’t it? Just ask Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to go and figure out how to modify your application to cut your spending on a...
Craig Conboy
Craig Conboy
September 26, 2025
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