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....
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Cost management as a standalone
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Not designing it in
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: No/Bad Metrics
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Can’t Attribute Costs
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Bad Cloud Strategy
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Not considering scale
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...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Intro
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...
SCaLE 21x is coming!
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...
Anti-Patterns in tech costing
I recently gave another presentation for the Vancouver software development managers. Not my greatest, but I still like the idea and it needs to be...