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Pragya Jazwal, Platform Engineering Lead at Paxos, compared standing up an internal developer portal to buying a gym membership during her talk at IDPCON 2025. Purchasing the software is one thing, but convincing a team of busy engineers to change their daily habits is a much bigger monster to tame. Pragya says the platform team at Paxos learned this lesson the hard way.

Why does AWS API Gateway spend rise even when backend infrastructure stays the same? For most teams, the answer isn’t compute. API Gateway pricing is driven by how APIs are used — request volume, retry behavior, traffic patterns, and growth over time — not by provisioned resources. Because AWS reports these costs as aggregated usage totals, it’s often unclear which APIs, environments, or behaviors are responsible for increases.

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InfluxDB is a widely used time-series database designed for storing and querying metrics, events, and telemetry data. It’s commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application instrumentation, and IoT-style workloads where time-based data is central. In many environments, InfluxDB already exists as part of the monitoring or data collection pipeline, and the primary need is simply to visualize that data effectively.