#environments

Cloud & Infrastructure

Cutting non-production cloud spend without slowing engineers down

Ryan Pham · Aug 19, 2026 · 5 min read

When we finally split our bill by environment, development, staging and preview environments were 38 percent of total cloud spend. Most of it ran 24 hours a day for people who work 8. This guide covers schedules, ephemeral environments, right-sizing, data copies and guardrails.

Incidents & Postmortems Bug Report

Trading bot started on mainnet with test sizing after a config refactor

Ryan Pham · Jul 1, 2026 · 6 min read

After a configuration refactor, a bot meant for the testnet connected to the production exchange with test parameters: order sizes ten times larger than production limits. A risk check caught it after four orders. This postmortem covers how environment selection failed and the guardrails we added.