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Economics·16 min read·August 20, 2026

How to Slash Cloud Database Storage Bills by 90%: The Complete Engineering Guide

A deep dive into why AWS RDS and MongoDB Atlas storage pricing scales exponentially, and how content-addressed object storage with mathematical formula mining eliminates data bloat.

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Punit Nigam
Lead Systems Architect & Founder
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Zero Driver Rewrite

How PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB wire protocols unify behind DataFusion and FastCDC.

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Economics16 min read

How to Slash Cloud Database Storage Bills by 90%: The Complete Engineering Guide

Storage quietly accounts for 70%+ of cloud database invoices above 20TB. Here is how modern database engines use FastCDC chunking, Minimum Description Length (MDL) theory, and Cloudflare R2 to slash monthly costs from $25,000 to $750.

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Punit Nigam
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Architecture18 min read

Multi-Wire Protocol Architecture: Unifying PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in Rust

Migrating databases usually requires rewriting thousands of lines of ORM and query code. Here is the complete systems architecture of how KOLMOS accepts connections from Prisma, Django, Laravel, and Mongoose simultaneously.

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Punit Nigam
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