Have you recently led cost optimization work? 🤔 Are you open to sharing your insights in a 30 minute chat? I am seeking a few tech platform owners (initially 2 or 3) to discuss their experiences with cost optimization. By combining various perspectives, I aim to enhance the quality and reliability of my advice, while understanding how strategies differ based on unique situations. If you are willing to talk about the approaches you've taken, successes, and challenges faced – whether it's a comprehensive finops initiative or negotiating with a entrenched SaaS partner – please reach out to me or comment below. I am interested in high-level insights, nothing sensitive or attributable. Thank you in advance. Show your interest by reacting with a lightbulb. If there is sufficient engagement, I will share key takeaways from our discussions. 🔍 #CostOptimization #TechPlatforms #FinOps

Really excited to be speaking and learning at the London Cloud Leaders event later in the month. We'll have talks sharing experiences of different moments of the cloud cost optimization journey and some roundtable discussions with an experienced group of industry leaders sharing what they've learned. In preparation, I've been talking to technology leaders about how they've adjusted to the changing financial climate, what helped and what held them back. What's clear to me is that there are key decisions that a company can make inexpensively, early in their journey, that can make a wealth of difference to speed of adjustment later. I should thank Stefan Coetzee, Vince 🐱‍💻 van Daal and Steve Judd for recently sharing their time so freely. I should also point to Steve's teams Finops project https://lnkd.in/eH6-WdqS which really does a great job breaking the back of the work to deploy a finops baseline for a GKE or K8s stack. Thanks Jack Herbert for putting this all together.

People of Linkedin, recently one of you posted an excellent infographic that talked of different AI capabilities that people thought would happen 'now' and then placed them on a timeline over the next 20 years showing when people who understood believed the capability would actually land. I have described this image countless times in discussions over the last few months but I cannot find it. Where is it? Do you have it? I recognise that I have now wasted many peoples time to find a single image that I should be able to find myself (but can't). To placate you, here are a couple of the more interesting articles I found whilst trying: https://lnkd.in/ddZ3-4Et https://lnkd.in/dGcw5Thq

Cloud Cost optimisation: I’m finding patterns in established tech companies that pivoted fast when the commercial climate shifted recently.  Companies that introduced a new, finops savvy individual (usually but not exclusively) on the finance side seem to have heavily outperformed those who did not. This advantage appears to be in velocity, larger short and longer term financial wins and especially in retaining the advantages gained. Hiring when the focus is cost reduction is a tough pitch, but it just might be that not doing so is worse. Each person I’ve spoken to laboured the central contributions of the new hire in their company.  This aligns with my most recent experiences with Ravi Patel at Deliveroo not only guiding our focus relentlessly but also coaching me on how better to think in ways that helped finance. He wasn’t just a catalyst but an accelerant. Do you have experiences that validate this or even better contradict it? I’d like to hear a few more stories to help separate these and maybe other root causes: * Hiring the extra focus signals a company more determined to make progress / change status quo hence better results. * An experienced new hire with spare capacity knows where to guide efforts for best results  * A new hire makes it easier to get over historical frictions and come at the problem fresh breaking down barriers that hold everyone back

[Edit: This role is now highly likely filled from my direct network] Observability and Devops, ~3 month contract. Fully remote, fast start. AWS / K8s / MySQL / New Relic / PagerDuty Hey all, Before putting this out to the client’s preferred contract agency - I'm checking if anyone in my network is looking for a short term contract role right now. Focus will be heavily on creation and maturing of stack instrumentation and dashboarding, moving detection from impact to initial cause, supporting building a reliability lifecycle from incident management through to blameless review and repair.  Previous experience maturing New Relic use would be a particular advantage. Great team to work with. Reach out to me in pm if you want to hear more.