Cluster Cost Audit Worksheet
A working spreadsheet for the cluster-by-cluster spend audit referenced in the EKS Cost Anatomy briefing. Includes the rightsizing worksheet and the rollback safety net checklist.
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A short shelf of working templates.
Each resource on this page accompanies one of our long-form briefings. Most are short — one-pagers and worksheets — because we have observed that long template documents rarely survive contact with a real engineering review.
Observability Cardinality Budget Template
The structure we use to discuss cardinality with on-call engineers. A neutral worksheet that helps a team agree on what to keep and what to retire before any change ships.
Open the source briefing →Pilot Scope Template
A short, structured template for scoping a six-week refactoring pilot, drawn from the thin-slice modernization briefing. Designed to resist scope creep during the kickoff.
Open the source briefing →Strangler Fig Pause Point Decision Card
A printable card that captures the four pause-point questions our team observed in the Java monolith migration briefing. Useful in steering committees and quarterly architecture reviews.
Open the source briefing →Service Mesh Adoption Worksheet
A redacted version of the evaluation worksheet from the deferred mesh adoption case study. Use it to walk your team through evaluation, not advocacy.
Open the source briefing →Cost Anti-Pattern One-Pager
A printable one-page summary of our working dictionary of cloud cost anti-patterns. Useful for platform retros and quarterly architecture reviews.
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