Cloud
23 posts filed under Cloud.
Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →Orchestration Tool Audit For Small Data Teams
Two-engineer data teams keep picking Airflow because it's "industry standard." Six months in, half the DAGs are commented out.
Read →FinOps for Data Audit Checklist (8 Cost Levers)
Your cloud data bill grew last year. Can anyone explain which workloads drove it?
Read →The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks
This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.
Read →Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
Vertical scaling is adding RAM. Horizontal scaling is adding servers. One has a ceiling. One doesn't.
Read →From EUR80K/Month Cloud Bill to EUR45K - The Optimization Sprint
This company cut their cloud data bill from EUR80K to EUR45K in 6 weeks. No functionality lost.
Read →When to Actually Implement a Modern Data Stack (SME Edition)
You're paying EUR3K/month for a cloud warehouse. Your Postgres could've handled it.
Read →Cost-Aware Data Engineering - FinOps for Data
Your data team doesn't know what their pipelines cost. That's the first problem.
Read →Managers Overseeing 3X More People Than 2017
The average data team manager is overseeing nearly 3X more people than in 2017. Something has to give.
Read →FinOps Reality Check: 60% Wasted Spend
Up to 60% of your cloud spend can go to waste. And nobody owns the problem.
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