Booking 5–10 day diagnostic audits

Forensic infrastructure audits
for teams bleeding cloud spend
or p99 latency.

Kobix is a founder-led systems performance and cloud audit practice. Fixed-scope 5–10 day diagnostics that isolate kernel bottlenecks, pipeline failures, and wasted cloud spend — delivered with a prioritized remediation blueprint.

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Fixed-scope audits. 5–10 day turnaround.

No open-ended retainers. Each audit is a focused forensic sprint that diagnoses root causes, quantifies dollar impact, and hands your team an executable fix list.

5-day turnaround · Fast ROI

Cloud FinOps & Storage Audit

A forensic sweep of your AWS or GCP estate. Surfaces idle compute, unindexed multi-terabyte object storage, NAT gateway traps, and GPU starvation — backed by a monthly savings ledger.

  • Compute right-sizing & commitment strategy
  • S3 / GCS petabyte storage tiering (Zarr / Parquet)
  • Cross-AZ egress & network cost containment
  • GPU utilization & data-loader stall analysis
Cut cloud spend →
5–7 day turnaround

Batch Pipeline & Reliability Audit

Designed for data-intensive and TechBio workloads. Eliminates mid-run OOM kills, container dependency drift, spot-instance interruption failures, and I/O bottlenecks across distributed workflows.

  • Nextflow, Snakemake & Ray orchestration
  • AWS Batch, HealthOmics & Kubernetes jobs
  • Spot instance fault-tolerance & checkpointing
  • Audit-ready reproducibility & IaC drift check
Stabilize pipelines →

Zero friction. Zero production risk.

  1. Day 1 · Scope & Access

    30-minute intake & read-only onboarding

    We align on your symptoms — whether it's a spiking AWS bill, p99 latency regressions, or failing batch jobs. You grant least-privilege, read-only IAM access or run our open-source telemetry collector. Zero changes to production.

  2. Days 2–6 · Deep Forensics

    Empirical profiling & architecture trace

    Asynchronous deep-dive across your billing exports, Terraform states, container resource limits, and kernel tracepoints. No disruption to your engineering team's daily sprint.

  3. Days 7–10 · Readout & Handoff

    Prioritized remediation blueprint

    You receive a comprehensive forensic report and live engineering walkthrough: annotated FlameGraphs, a ranked dollar-savings ledger, and copy-pasteable Terraform/config patches your team owns 100%.

Built different, by design.

Principal engineer, not junior analysts

You work directly with a 20-year systems and cloud architect. No account managers, and no junior consultants running generic compliance checklists.

Beyond static AI scanners

Native cloud scanners flag open buckets; they don't diagnose kernel lock contention, CFS throttling, or Nextflow I/O stalls. We audit runtime reality.

Pays for itself in billing cycle one

FinOps and performance audits routinely uncover 20–40% in wasted compute, storage, and observability ingestion — delivering immediate positive ROI.

Zero lock-in. 100% your IP.

Audits are strictly diagnostic. You get the raw traces, scripts, and remediation PRs so your internal team can execute immediately — or engage us for targeted fixes.

What you receive on Day 10.

No fluff slide decks. Every audit concludes with an engineering-grade diagnostic package your team can act on immediately.

Artifact 01

Executive Cost & Risk Matrix

A ranked ledger of every architectural bottleneck and wasted cloud line-item, scored by engineering effort versus monthly dollar impact and SLA risk.

Artifact 02

Empirical FlameGraphs & Traces

Interactive On-CPU/Off-CPU FlameGraphs, kernel drop histograms, and pod resource utilization heatmaps proving the exact root cause of performance degradation.

Artifact 03

Ready-to-Merge Remediation Blueprint

Concrete Terraform diffs, Kubernetes manifest adjustments, S3 lifecycle policies, and kernel sysctl tuning parameters ready for your CI/CD pipeline.