What Ahrefs might have done, and what finops has in common with bank robbery
I'll consider what a parellel-universe Ahrefs in a different reality timeline might have done in the cloud....
Ahrefs’ “billion dollar savings” and the “on-prem bigots”
"Buy long term, rent out short" is an effective strategy in every capital-intensive business. There's nothing wrong with short-term commitments if that's what the nature...
Hey hey! Ho ho! Fundraisers-in-Chief have got to go!
It's telling that the CEO of Boeing and the presidents of so many top universities are in the same position: unable to respond to a...
SCaLE 21x wrap up: Anti-patterns in tech cost management
The talk at SCaLE went well, or at least as well as I expected. I hate public speaking, but it's something that stretches me and...
SCaLE 21x wrap up: UpSCaLE
My lightning talk at UpSCaLE went well, though there was a bit of a microphone-related hitch at the start that forced me to catch up....
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Three things to do now
I have three brief recommendations for things you can do right now. ...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Bonus! Don’t do rewards programs
I can come up with hundreds of ways to cut costs to generate a short term bonus for me while leaving the long-term impacts to...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: “A tool will solve the problem!”
I'll lead with my bias: If you can't do something manually, no tool will help. It may, in some way, make you feel better....
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Across the board cuts
This kind of across-the-board target highlights that the decision makers don't know where the costs/inefficiencies exist, or they don't care and can't be bothered to...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: No ongoing reviews
No choices are forever. Every optimization degrades. Regular review of choices and utilization needs to happen both within and across teams....