CLOUDY MUSINGS

I have watched some version of this play out enough times now that it almost feels like a rite of passage for organizations trying to mature their engineering operations. The symptoms are usually familiar. Incidents are happening too often, engineers are burned out, on-call has become something people dread, leadership wants fewer escalations, and somewhere in the middle of all that, someone says, “We need an SRE.” From there, a requisition gets approved, somebody smart gets

When people hear the word FinOps, their minds almost always jump to one thing: savings. “How much money can we cut from the cloud bill?”...