Buy Your Way Out, or Re-Architect?Warehouse · hard · ~15 minThe 06:00 finance SLA was missed three times this month. Leadership's proposal, already half-approved: 'run a 4XL around the clock so this never happens again'. 4XL = 128 credits/hour. The actual picture: the 03:00-05:30 ETL window on an XL sometimes overruns when month-end volumes spike, AND an unrelated 02:00 science workload shares the warehouse, AND the biggest model has a known 2-hour skewed join.Price leadership's plan honestly, then counter with the engineering answer.Evidence

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Price the proposal first: a 4XL running 24/7 for a 30-day month consumes how many CREDITS? (128 x 24 x 30)

What does the evidence say actually causes the misses?

The engineering counter-proposal?

Write the two-line summary you'd give leadership: the 4XL's real price vs the targeted plan, and the monitoring that proves the SLA holds. Interview-style.