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Who Saved Basecamp Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars?

Blake Stoddard , from Basecamp Ops team, was curious to see if he would be able to save company money by optimizing their cloud spent. Turns out, he could, on order order of hundreds of thousands of dollars!

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