The Platform Fix | Issue #013 Hello Reader— Remember that fintech where 3 engineers quit? We found something else. One K8s feature burning £67k/month. They’d enabled it because “everyone does.” Sound familiar? The Cluster Autoscaler Conspiracy: Here’s what vendors don’t tell you about autoscaling: 73% of clusters scale for peaks that happen <1% of the time Average utilisation: 23% You’re paying for 77% air The math is brutal: 100 nodes provisioned. 23 actually needed. £50k+/month up in smoke....