Mike Julian
@mikejulian.com
Cofounder/CEO at DuckbillHQ.com. @mike_julian on Twitter
Want to start a FinOps program? The secret first step: do almost nothing. Just measure everything and show people the numbers. Let the gentle, persistent shame of a public dashboard work its magic. You'll be amazed how quickly costs go down.
#finops
#finops
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Want to start a FinOps program? The secret first step: do almost nothing. Just measure everything and show people the numbers. Let the gentle, persistent shame of a public dashboard work its magic. You'll be amazed how quickly costs go down.
#finops
#finops
So you want to know how your cloud spend stacks up against the competition? Great. Do you also want to be profoundly mediocre? Chasing benchmarks strips away everything unique about your business. Compete with the only company that matters: yourself, last month.
#finops
#finops
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
So you want to know how your cloud spend stacks up against the competition? Great. Do you also want to be profoundly mediocre? Chasing benchmarks strips away everything unique about your business. Compete with the only company that matters: yourself, last month.
#finops
#finops
Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman.
#finops
#finops
October 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman.
#finops
#finops
Just doin some wild shit in studio with @quinnypig.com today 🤘
July 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just doin some wild shit in studio with @quinnypig.com today 🤘
Today's self-own: introducing the eng team to quines
April 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today's self-own: introducing the eng team to quines
We do a lot of hard work on whiteboards over here.
Chief among them is this graph explaining the quality distribution of burritos in SF vs the national stage. 🌯🌯🌯
Chief among them is this graph explaining the quality distribution of burritos in SF vs the national stage. 🌯🌯🌯
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We do a lot of hard work on whiteboards over here.
Chief among them is this graph explaining the quality distribution of burritos in SF vs the national stage. 🌯🌯🌯
Chief among them is this graph explaining the quality distribution of burritos in SF vs the national stage. 🌯🌯🌯
March 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
god damn these are good
March 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
god damn these are good
More chaos? yes please!
March 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
More chaos? yes please!
"Need more absurdity"?
damn skippy I do
damn skippy I do
March 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"Need more absurdity"?
damn skippy I do
damn skippy I do
It asked me if I wanted some ridiculous ones too, as if those weren't ridiculous enough
it didn't disappoint 😆
it didn't disappoint 😆
March 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It asked me if I wanted some ridiculous ones too, as if those weren't ridiculous enough
it didn't disappoint 😆
it didn't disappoint 😆
okay, these are suprisingly good
March 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
okay, these are suprisingly good
coffee descaling gone wrong
January 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
coffee descaling gone wrong
I didn’t realize it was possible to suck at using aluminum foil but @quinnypig.com definitely proved me wrong
January 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I didn’t realize it was possible to suck at using aluminum foil but @quinnypig.com definitely proved me wrong
Apparently Amazon is resorting to flattery now
December 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Apparently Amazon is resorting to flattery now
Folks have spent the past 15 years effectively trying to recreate Heroku
and now, apparently, Heroku itself is going to try it's hand at it 😆
and now, apparently, Heroku itself is going to try it's hand at it 😆
December 7, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Folks have spent the past 15 years effectively trying to recreate Heroku
and now, apparently, Heroku itself is going to try it's hand at it 😆
and now, apparently, Heroku itself is going to try it's hand at it 😆
I miss websites like this
November 26, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I miss websites like this
It took years to get @quinnypig.com to stop interjecting “you may know me from my full page profile in the New York Times” and now this
Thanks @awscloud.bsky.social, great work
Thanks @awscloud.bsky.social, great work
November 23, 2024 at 7:42 AM
It took years to get @quinnypig.com to stop interjecting “you may know me from my full page profile in the New York Times” and now this
Thanks @awscloud.bsky.social, great work
Thanks @awscloud.bsky.social, great work
