By Josh PalmerSep 2, 202610 min read
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?
Forward Deployed Engineers embed inside customer environments to own deployments end to end. Here's what the role involves, where the title came from, and how it compares to consultants and architects
By Richard KangAug 31, 20269 min read
More tokens, less money: why token counts rank AI agent cost backwards
In a real AWS sandbox, the three highest-token agents were the three cheapest. Fargate compute, not model tokens, decided the per-agent cost ranking.
By Dima KramskoyAug 31, 20266 min read
You Switched to Amazon Quick Enterprise — And Lost Everything. Here's the Fix.
Switching Amazon Quick to Enterprise SSO creates a fresh profile and hides months of data. Here's the folder-copy workaround that restores conversations, agents, skills, and your knowledge graph.
By Vadim SoloveyAug 31, 20267 min read
August 2026 in review: AI spend gets itemized, CloudFlow goes truly multi-cloud, Kubernetes gets guardrails
A roundup of August 2026 releases: itemized AI provider spend in Cloud Analytics, CloudFlow support for Oracle Cloud and Azure, SQL and email triggers, and smarter Kubernetes optimization in PerfectSc
By Vadim SoloveyAug 18, 20268 min read
Your developers want a self-hosted LLM. Your CFO wants the math.
When does self-hosting an open-weight LLM beat API and subscription pricing? We break down H100 costs across clouds, node sizing by team size, and where the break-even actually sits.
By Vadim SoloveyAug 11, 202614 min read
Cost Per Task, Not Cost Per Token: Unit Economics of Frontier LLM Workloads
Per-token prices mislead for agentic workloads. This analysis compares Claude and OpenAI on cost per solved task, factoring in retries, reliability, caching, and cleanup costs.
By Dima KramskoyAug 5, 202612 min read
Stop Wrestling with Complex Permissions: A Breath of Fresh Air for Your Code
Tired of tangled if/else permission checks scattered across your codebase? See how Amazon Verified Permissions centralizes authorization, using a real AWS PetStore example.
By Kurt HeinemannAug 4, 20265 min read
DoiT Becomes Founding Member of the Tokenomics Foundation
DoiT joins the Tokenomics Foundation as a founding member, bringing the runtime measurement experience behind Attribute to help define open standards for AI spend attribution and governance.
By Vadim SoloveyJul 28, 20268 min read
Our recruiters ship software now
DoiT's talent acquisition team, paired with one embedded Applied AI engineer, now ships production software: an AI job description builder, candidate screener, sourcing tool, and more.
Your cloud bill shouldn't be a mystery
Optimization, automation, expertise. In one platform.
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiJul 27, 20267 min read
Stop Over-Provisioning for Startup: GKE's New CPU Startup Boost
GKE's new CPU startup boost lets you give containers extra CPU during initialization, then scale back to baseline in place—no more over-provisioning for JVM warm-up.
By Joseph AllamJul 20, 20268 min read
DynamoDB: What Most Teams Get Wrong Before They Write a Line of Code
DynamoDB is one of AWS's most powerful databases — but most teams that struggle with it are making the same schema design mistakes. Here's what to know before you build.