Simple laws for building cost-aware, sustainable, modern architectures.
What is Frugal Architecture?
Watch Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, as he introduces the concept of being a Frugal Architect.
The Architects
Always ask why: A journey from sports tech to food waste
Morten Keldebaek & Robert Christiansen CTO & VP Engineering, Too Good To Go
From a traffic spike that crashed their system during the 2018 World Cup to serving millions of users in 19 countries, Morten and Robert share how questioning everything, embracing incremental progress, and choosing proven technology have built a culture of pragmatic (and frugal) engineering at Too Good To Go—and kept millions of meals out of the trash.
Keeping the stories flowing at Warner Bros. Discovery
Tom Leaman VP of Site Reliability Engineering, Warner Bros. Discovery
With just nine months to launch Max and no room for downtime, Warner Bros. Discovery had to make every architectural decision count. This story follows how they built observability into their systems, made cost visible across engineering, and turned lessons from scaling missteps into a culture of discipline and resilience—so that when the world pressed play, things just worked.
The Frugal Architect Podcast
Hosted by Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels, listen to industry innovators as they share strategies for optimizing costs when designing for the cloud
![[S01E05] At Too Good To Go, Practical Engineering Keeps Food Out of the Bin](/images/podcast/episode-5-poster-bw.jpg)
[S01E05] At Too Good To Go, Practical Engineering Keeps Food Out of the Bin
![[S01E04] How Warner Bros. Discovery keeps streaming seamless](/images/podcast/episode-4-poster-bw.jpg)