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Optimizing Cloud Costs: Essential Skills for Cloud FinOps Specialists

If you think FinOps is solely about cost savings, it's time for a paradigm shift. At its core, FinOps is a wealth-building strategy that involves skillful management of cloud expenditures. Not only does it contribute to financial prudence, but it also serves as a driver for increased revenue, signifies burgeoning customer base expansion, facilitates a swifter release cadence for products and features, and may even play a pivotal role in the strategic closure of a data center.  

Navigating Cloud FinOps: Challenges, Stakeholders, Best Practices

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, the paradigm of Cloud FinOps has emerged as a crucial financial management approach. It not only aims to optimize cloud spending but also seeks to maximize business value realization through cloud transformation. The essence of Cloud FinOps lies in a cultural shift, bringing together technology, finance, and business to drive financial accountability and accelerate the realization of business value. 

What is an acceptable level of technical debt?

The acceptable level of technical debt can vary depending on the organization and project but it is generally considered to be the amount that can be managed and controlled within the budget and resources of the company. It is also considered acceptable when it's incurred with a clear plan, understanding the trade-offs, and the costs involved and when it aligns with the organization's goals and objectives.

Can you ever get rid of technical debt?

Completely getting rid of technical debt may not be possible as new software systems and features will always be added over time and the codebase will continue to evolve and become more complex. Additionally, some degree of technical debt is often unavoidable as it can be a necessary trade-off to meet immediate business needs or to deliver new features quickly.

What is Technical Debt

Technical debt is a term used to describe the cost of maintaining and updating existing software systems, often as a result of poor design or short-term decision making. The term is used to describe the trade-off between taking short-term action to meet immediate needs and taking long-term action to minimize the total cost of ownership.

Two types of contracting categories within Canadian Federal Government

Typically, there are two giant buckets people fall into when they are looking at federal contracting...IT and non-IT. The IT contracting space is much larger and has it's own section of categories and job descriptions. The reason it is important to know the difference is because the titles between some types of roles will be exactly the same however the content within the resume and job requirements will be different. Take note of what you are applying for and be mindful of the language used on the posting. Sometimes they will post the exact category they are leveraging and mention this in the posting. Not a bad clarification question to ask the recruiter you are working with. 

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