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Your Kubernetes Bill Isn’t “Traffic”—It’s Scheduling Debt
You know the feeling: traffic’s steady (or even down), deploys are routine, nothing’s on fire… and your Kubernetes spend still climbs. The first instinct is to blame growth. The second is to blame the cloud provider. The third is to swear you’ll “deal with it next sprint.” But most of the time, it’s none of that. It’s scheduling debt. Not “technical debt” in the abstract. Scheduling debt is the pile-up of tiny, reasonable decisions—requests set a little too high, node pools c