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Ep. 23 Balancing the Scales Cost, Technology, and FinOps

In this episode of Cloud Control podcast, hosts Sean Harris and Danal Burke are joined by special guest Dvir Mizrahi, Head of Financial Engineering and FinOps at Wix.com. They discuss the transition from DevOps to FinOps and the challenges that come with it. Dvir explains how they took a ground-up approach at Wix, involving the Engineering teams in the FinOps process and aligning it with their existing processes. They also talk about the importance of tools in managing and monitoring cloud costs, and how Wix developed their own in-house tool to suit their specific needs.

Optimizing Apache AirFlow on EKS with Spot Ocean

As Data Scientists and Engineers in a fast-paced corporate environment, our daily activities are filled with numerous challenges. One of the most daunting obstacles we face is the management of infrastructure and related costs. Each task or model we work on must be scheduled meticulously, cost-optimized, and equipped with the right CPU and memory specifications. On top of that, we must also supervise their dependencies.

How to start optimizing AKS workloads in under 3 minutes

Businesses leveraging Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure face distinct challenges centered around the complexities of cost management and infrastructure optimization. Designing a cloud environment that aligns with business needs and strict budgets requires not only a deep understanding of Azure’s vast offerings but also state-of-the-art automations to optimally leverage them.

Enhancing cloud optimization with tailor-made Availability Zone recommendations

Optimization is key to achieving cost efficiency and stability for cloud environments. One optimization factor to consider is deciding which availability zones (AZ) to operate in. Location can impact cloud operations availability, performance, and cost. However, it can be a daunting task to look for the most suitable and cost-efficient AZs. There are two key challenges.

Spot by NetApp a leader in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Resource Optimization for third year in a row

In the last few years, many businesses have migrated much of their operations to the cloud, and with increased usage, the complexity of managing cloud costs and achieving operational efficiency has grown as well. In many cases, cloud usage is outpacing the capabilities or availability of DevOps and FinOps teams to effectively manage a larger, more complex cloud infrastructure, so cloud optimization solutions are becoming the lifeline to maintaining reliable and cost-efficient operations.

Research: How cloud practitioners optimize infrastructure in a multi-cloud world

What do today’s cloud practitioners need to navigate the ever-evolving cloud ecosystem? The growing complexity of the cloud requires innovation through automation, optimization, containerization, and a variety of other technologies. Yet with so many different methodologies, strategies, and best practices available to them today, cloud operations professionals need to know which options will bring them the greatest success as their cloud journeys evolve.

Ep. 22 The Kubernetes effect: What All Developers Should Know with Tammer Saleh

In this episode, Shon Harris, the Developer Relations Lead at Spot, interviews Tammer Saleh, the Founder of SuperOrbital. They discuss Tammer's journey from being a UNIX systems administrator to an engineering leader in the cloud industry. They touch upon the surprises and changes he has witnessed throughout his career, including the shift to Linux as a viable Unix option and the significance of macOS adopting a BSD-based system.

Helping companies go beyond savings with Spot by NetApp for FinOps

We’re thrilled to be back again at FinOps X in San Diego. The premier FinOps event of the year, it’s a fitting place to proudly announce that the Spot by NetApp product portfolio is now a FinOps Certified Platform. This FinOps Foundation certification reaffirms our commitment to supporting the FinOps framework and best practices.

Ep. 21 Redefining Observability with Charity Majors

In this episode Charity Majors, the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, discusses observability in the cloud computing industry. She talks about her experience speaking at Google Cloud Next and the importance of observability in developing software applications. Charity explains how Honeycomb uses AI to assist with constructing queries and how observability is about understanding and developing complex systems. She also emphasizes the need for a single source of truth in observability tools and the shift from metrics to logs.