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FinOps tools are consolidating: Flexera–ProsperOps, DoiT’s buying spree, and the platform endgame
FinOps tooling is consolidating into CloudOps platforms. Flexera buys ProsperOps (vertical execution) and Chaos Genius (horizontal data scope). DoiT is buying across Kubernetes, security and Snowflake. PE speeds change. Policy turns intent into action; plan for vendor risk. Next: AWS 'normal' era...
Protect the doers. One month. Your copy.
A while ago, I self-published a short, opinionated book for first-time managers: Protect the doers.
It is not a framework.
It is not a leadership manifesto.
It is a set of hard-won lessons from doing the job, getting it wrong, and doing it again. Better.
I wrote it for people
The FinOps market just blinked. And then consolidated.
Every coder is a fashionista
The monster under the bed was always in the contract
Many cloud strategies were built on assumptions that were never written down. Prices would not rise. Services would not disappear. Performance would hold. None of that was guaranteed. When assumptions live outside the contract, they stop being comfort and start being risk.
Introducing Protect the Doers
Most people become managers by accident.
They were good at their job. Someone noticed. A promotion followed. Overnight, producing value was replaced by being responsible for people who do. No manual. No training.
This book exists because that gap is real.