ZopDev writing tagged automation. Engineering and FinOps notes, post-mortems, and benchmarks.
The cron expression means "stop at 7 PM, weekdays only." Most engineers can read it after a moment. A non-engineer cannot, and even the engineer who wrote it forgets the semantics within a quarter.…
Every cost-optimisation product has shipped an "Apply Fix" button at some point. Most teams do not click them. Either the button is a stub that opens a ticket somewhere (and nothing happens until a…
The 2 a.m. compute runaway is the canonical FinOps incident. A Spark job is misconfigured to provision new EMR nodes every minute it cannot find a leader. A test agent left running on a developer's…
The closed-loop pipeline runs the easy part well. Detect fires, decide picks a remediation, act executes, verify confirms. The hard part is the line between "auto-execute" and "page a human." Most…
A FinOps team produces a recommendation report on Monday morning. It identifies $185,000 of monthly waste across 240 cloud resources. By Friday, 12 of those 240 are remediated. By the end of week 4,…
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