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How 5 companies got their developers to care about cloud costs How 5 companies got their developers to care about cloud costs Software developers don’t typically have to worry about the costs of running their services, but as cloud costs continue to rise, more and more will have to learn to embrace cloud cost optimisation. That means adopting finops. Credit: Dreamstime Previously the purview of dedicated centres of excellence, or even exclusively the procurement and fi...

How enterprise customers are bringing pandemic-driven cloud costs under control Cloud cost optimisation is rapidly moving up the agenda as the dust settles on the technology decisions driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the key tools and principles to help developers stop cloud costs outpacing revenue. Credit: Dreamstime Now, as the end of the pandemic hopefully comes into view, the party might be coming to an end, and cloud cost optimisation will be on the agenda for many o...

by Jen Rice and Anna Matlin Introduction Airbnb was born in the cloud. In 2008, while many companies were operating data centers, a few clicks on the AWS console brought Airbnb to life. From our first Ruby on Rails app, to our more recent adoption of service-oriented architecture, the ability to instantly spin up compute and storage has enabled our teams to move quickly and meet the growing demands of our business. However, the business value this nimbleness affords can quickly be offset by clo...