Migrations are complex, time-consuming, and costly. When deciding to leave VMware due to Broadcom price increases and their cancellation of perpetual licensing, the cost associated with the act of migration... Read More
FinOps: Applying Earned Value Management to maximize ROI
By Chris Jones
One of the greatest strengths of FinOps is its ability to focus on driving business value. However, many teams, especially engineering teams, struggle to directly connect their work and their... Read More
Top 6 FinOps KPIs for EKS
By Chris Jones
The FinOps foundation is a treasure trove of useful frameworks, guides and importantly KPIs and I would recommend everyone dive in and explore. However, sometimes frameworks, guides and KPIs can... Read More
The argument for AWS Spot Instances
By Chris Jones
In a spot market, buyers and sellers immediately exchange financial securities for cash. The spot price is what buyers and sellers agree to pay or receive for an asset. When... Read More
An introduction to Flux – Part 2: Capabilities and ecosystem
By Chris Jones
This blog is part 2 of our introduction to Flux. In part 1, we walked through the history of Flux, its graduation as a CNCF project, and dove into the... Read More
An introduction to Flux – Part 1: History and features
By Chris Jones
The following blog provides an overview of Flux, its lifecycle, adoption, unique capabilities, and several references to help you get started. This is not intended to be a getting started... Read More
Build infrastructure for apps
By Chris Jones
This is the 4th blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read part 3 here, or can go back and... Read More
Build complete clusters, not parts
By Chris Jones
This is the 3rd blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. Imagine, your... Read More
What is GitOps and why it is important?
By Chris Jones
This is the 2nd blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read part 1 here. Part 3 and part 4... Read More