cost optimization

1. September 10, 202631 min read

   What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs

   A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.

2. September 10, 202630 min read

   What a Query Costs

   Four meters, their real proportions, and how to attribute compute to a query, a table, and a team so a platform can answer what a dashboard costs to run.

3. August 25, 202630 min read

   Agent-Driven Storage Tiering for Apache Iceberg: Moving Cold Data Without Breaking Queries

   A background agent can move cold Iceberg partitions to cheaper tiers without breaking live queries. Heatmaps, path-safe moves, and restore paths.

4. July 28, 202630 min read

   What Agentic Analytics Actually Costs, and How to Keep It Bounded

   Agent analytics generates two cost streams that scale on different variables. Here's the arithmetic, the levers that actually move the number, and how.

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