Ever spin up a server, give it extra memory and CPU “just to be safe,” and never turn it down?
That’s overprovisioning and it’s draining your budget.

In this episode of What the Cloud:

What overprovisioned resources are
Why they waste money without adding value

Got a cloud question? Ask away

When you forget what's in your fridge it goes bad 
Same thing’s happening in your cloud.

Old experiments. Abandoned environments. S3 buckets from 2019.

Time for a cleanup
Start with visibility #stopzombies

#CloudCosts #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudWaste

You deleted the instance.
But the volume stuck around like it missed you.

Now it’s quietly billing you for space you don’t use and don’t need.
Just because it’s out of sight doesn’t mean it’s gone.

#StopZombies | 15 Cloud Zombie Series | 

Video: Sora

You deleted the instance.
But the volume stuck around like it missed you.

Now it’s quietly billing you for space you don’t use and don’t need.
Just because it’s out of sight doesn’t mean it’s gone.

#StopZombies | 15 Cloud Zombie Series | 
Video: ChatGPT

Why’s your EM grumpy?

While you're debating vision or trying to cram everything into a release, they’re drowning in bugs and pressure.

Great PMs bridge long-term goals with short-term clarity. How do you balance both?

#ProductManagement #Leadership #Engineering

I’ve interviewed lots of AI experts but my 4th grader taught me the most important skill in AI 

She had a clear idea
She creates without limits
and gave feedback to shape the result.

That ability’s inside you too.
Give it a try.

#AI #Creativity #LearningMindset

Did you know that it took us a while to trust elevators without human operators? There were things we needed to put in place to create trust, the same is true with AI

Cloud visibility isn’t a report. It’s a radar.
Without it, every request and every deployment is a gamble.

I break down why visibility is your first line of defense 

#CloudCosts #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #CloudOps #Observability #Leadership #Infra