finops
A list of all articles with the tag "finops."
Dann's Unofficial Guide to Finops X
Dann's unofficial guide to FinOps X. Geared towards practitioners wanting to make the most out of their experience at the conference.
Avoiding Lone FinOps Purgatory: When and how to grow your FinOps team
When you're the first FinOps hire, it's easy to get stuck as a one-person team indefinitely. Here's exactly how to identify when you need to grow, and how to make the case.
From Engineers to Executives: Delivering Cost Reports to different users
Different levels of your business think about costs a little differently. Here's how to build three distinct cost reports to serve different users.
Unit Costs will change the way you think about your cloud bill
Cost-based Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) aren't just for business-level metrics. You should integrate Unit Costs at all levels of your application's spend.
Convincing Your Company Adopt Finops
Two tangible practices you can implement to positively foster a FinOps culture
A path forks ahead: a meditation on future FinOps career options
There are so many different career options for FinOps Practitioners. This is an exploration of these paths as I thought about my next role.
On Making Big Career Changes
I've made several large career changes over the course of my professional life, and I've learned a few things in the process.
Scenario: your monthly invoice is over budget
You're a FinOps practitioner, and January's invoice is above forecast. Let's explore four different ways this scenario could play out.
Margins are the new budgets
How FinOps Practitioners at SaaS companies can ditch traditional budgets by updating the way they think about margins
Ask a Finops Practitioner: When to prioritize cost?
Q: Does a company have to be at a certain level of maturity with performance reliability and security before cost becomes a priority?
Creating a FinOps practice as the first practitioner
So you've joined a company as the first FinOps practitioner. Here's how to build out your practice from day one.
A bit of career news from yours truly
After four rewarding and fulfilling years at Datadog, I've decided to join a startup called FullStory. Here's why.
Evolving your cloud-cost strategy as you scale
A framework for thinking about cloud-cost strategies at different stages of your company's growth.