Michael Gat

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...

No choices are forever. Every optimization degrades. Regular review of choices and utilization needs to happen both within and across teams....

Many in the cloud cost control/FinOps community have stories of "somebody" being hired to finally bring sanity to cost control efforts, but being made responsible...

Most of us will work on projects that involve architectural change and/or complete re-architecture. This is an opportunity to address costs that should not be...

Managing costs is not possible if you don't have good costs metrics in place. The topic of how to create good cost metrics is worthy...

Attribution is one of the many spaces in cost management where you can either do it, or have it done to you. The former is...

It is likely that you are using a public cloud provider for something, unless your initials are "DHH." It's something you must have a strategy...

The scale of your technical operations/budget places a hard limit on how much you can afford to spend on cost management. Any efforts you make...

Engineering is where science meets economics. In the tech world, this means that we as engineers are primarily concerned with using scientific and logical tools...

I'll be running a track for the SoCal Linux Expo (aka "SCaLE"), which has been my go-to favorite tech conference for many years. I remained...