Running software on cloud providers certainly is convenient, but it’s also really easy to run up the associated bill if you’re not consciously thinking about costs (something most of us, myself included, don’t do often enough). In the vein of “DevOps,” this has led some companies to continue the trend of “taking a term meant to emphasize having actual cross-functional teams, and slapping it on something utterly unrelated,” leading to the rise of something called “FinOps.” Basically, FinOps, or “Financial Operations,” is about incorporating business concerns (namely, cost) into the development process. The official site may say that it’s a “cultural practice,” but we all saw how well that worked out with “DevOps.” This is the type of thing that gets people to start arguing that you should get out of the cloud, (because you can save tons of money). Is that worth it though?
Nov 302023