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Laws of Frugal Architecture

I.
Make Cost a Non-functional Requirement
II.
Systems that Last Align Cost to Business
III.
Architecting is a Series of Trade-offs
IV.
Unobserved Systems Lead to Unknown Costs
V.
Cost Aware Architectures Implement Cost Controls
VI.
Cost Optimization is Incremental
VII.
Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions
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Dan Conti
Former CTO, WeTransfer
Morten Keldebaek & Robert Christiansen
CTO & VP Engineering, Too Good To Go
John Mills & David Merritt
CEO & CTO, Watch Duty
Mike Norton
VP of Cloud Technologies, PBS
Tom Leaman
VP of Site Reliability Engineering, Warner Bros. Discovery

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