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‘Military-grade security’ is a category error.
‘Military-grade security’ is a category error. It often means rugged hardware, not resilient controls. Think Rite in the Rain notebooks: great in mud and rain, irrelevant …
Cloud strategy rarely survives the trip to engineering
FinOps gets stronger when it stops behaving like a reporting function and starts translating executive intent into operational reality. Cloud cost is not just an …
Big record labels and FinOps practitioners make the same mistake
Music touches the soul but labels are missing the point
FinOps wants to grow. It might shrink instead
As cloud approaches trillion-dollar scale, it becomes infrastructure. FinOps practices standardise and disperse into finance, engineering, and procurement. What remains …
All you need is flow - ta ta da da da
The flow seems to be the most important thing in many activities.
Missing defaults in every day products
You can see the power of defaults on things that do not have default but should.
The first step for all successful automations
Start here for automation
A framework helps people think. A system helps people operate
A framework helps people think. A system helps people operate FinOps has a framework, and that matters. But frameworks guide attention. A field matures when more people …
Each new company still forces FinOps practitioners to begin again
Each new company still forces FinOps practitioners to begin again We need more stability.