Topic - value alignment Big record labels and FinOps practitioners make the same mistake Music touches the soul but labels are missing the point
A table anonymiser What I built (github) is a first step, not the destination. An anonymiser can strip identifiers from a billing file like a CUR, and mine is designed to work across table formats, not just AWS, but the structure of the data still carries meaning. Even without names, a detailed billing
Cloud strategy rarely survives the trip to engineering FinOps gets stronger when it stops behaving like a reporting function and starts translating executive intent into operational reality. Cloud cost is not just an optimisation problem. It is a business decision about risk, reward, and which outcomes are worth paying for.