Episode 30 of The Developer Tools Podcast: Lucas and Luna explore the hidden cost of API audit logs — the storage, compliance, and compute expenses that silently balloon as your system scales. They break down real numbers: a typical compliance-mandated retention of 90 days, the per-request overhead of structured logging, and how one engineer at a fintech startup discovered their audit trail cost more than their database. They discuss trade-offs between granularity and cost, sampling strategies, and when to ask whether you REALLY need every field. If you're building APIs and ignoring your log bill, this is your wake-up call.

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