Operational economics

• docsStart here
  FinOps principles ↗

  FinOps Foundation · 4 min

  Cost as an engineering metric: teams own their usage, decisions follow business value, data arrives fast.

• docsGo deeper
  Introduction to cloud unit economics ↗

  FinOps Foundation · 2025 · 20 min

  Measuring cost per customer or per transaction, which tells you far more than the total bill.

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  Prompt caching ↗

  Anthropic docs · 20 min

  Reusing the stable part of a prompt to cut the cost and latency of model calls.

Tools for this topic are being researched.

• 10.1Product observability→6 skills
• 10.2Reliability engineering→5 skills
• 10.3Maintenance→4 skills
• 10.4User support→4 skills
• 10.5Governance and compliance→5 skills
• 10.7Product lifecycle management→4 skills

• 02.7.6Return on investment→
• 02.7.4Costs and margins→