Fudge Sunday - FinOps Erase and Rewind
A look at FinOps and Swedish rock band lyrics
This week we look at FinOps and Swedish rock band lyrics
The Cardigans - Erase & Rewind (1999)
Getting Informed
This issue of the newsletter is heavy on video and lyrical references. Notably, we draw upon the lyrics of “Erase & Rewind” from The Cardigans.
For context, the recommended viewing if you have access to Netflix…
“This Is Pop” Season 1 Episode 3 (2021)
Have you ever wondered how Sweden continues to crank out decades of hit music, memorable songs, and megastars? Here are some answers…
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You know the difference it makes 🎶
So, how did a Swedish rock band influence FinOps?
Think about the lyric when you run infracost breakdown --path .
FinOps Foundation February 2022: State of FinOps
No, it’s not that I don’t know 🎶
And if you know, you can send cost estimates to Slack.
FinOps Foundation March 2022: State of FinOps Data
I just don’t want it to grow 🎶
Keeping things commensurate is about taking sensible actions.
FinOps Foundation April 2022: State of FinOps Tooling and User Stories
Recommended Read and Repo
This is your daily companion to hype — its uses and misuses. Become a skilled surveyor of the modern hype landscape and a masterful poker of holes into the narratives of technology.This field guide includes the following topics:What exactly is hype? What are the dangers of it?How does the rhetoric of hype work?Who’s driving hype and why?A number of additional notes, case studies and thoughts touching on these topicsThe zine was written and printed in Munich. It ships from Germany.
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johannesklingebiel.gumroad.com
A set of GitHub actions for Infracost. See cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests. 💰📉 Love your cloud bill! - GitHub - infracost/actions: A set of GitHub actions for Infracost. See cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests. 💰📉 Love your cloud bill!
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And finally… Shot and Chaser
Shot: Then, now, and next for Developers, Developers, Developers (2021)
Past readers will recall this look at the past, present, and future of Low Code No Code + Developer Evangelism Relations Advocacy with perspectives from various luminaries like Ashley Willis at Microsoft.
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Chaser: Luminary on the move! (2022)
This week we learned that head of developer relations Ashley Willis is leaving Microsoft to join Google.🎉🤓
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