In this episode of "FinOps on Azure," Richard Fennell, CTO at Black Marble and FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson MVP, discusses the relationship between DevOps, FinOps, and Azure Cost Management. The podcast discusses how integrating FinOps into DevOps practices enhances cost management and optimization. Richard emphasizes the challenges of implementation, the importance of senior management support, and the early involvement of FinOps in development cycles to improve decision-making and identify cost-saving opportunities.

Lumigo is an observability and troubleshooting platform that autonomously deploys Observability in under 5 minutes with a single click, automatically capturing and contextualizing all of the metrics, logs, and distributed traces developers need to troubleshoot microservice issues in production. Lumigo is the only observability platform that enriches traces with complete in-context request and response payloads and correlates them to the relevant logs and metrics, enabling developers to resolve issues up to 80% faster.

Apache Spark users may believe Instance Rightsizing eliminates cluster waste—but it cannot actionably optimize Spark apps. Learn more about how Instance Rightsizing is another myth of optimizing Apache Spark workloads for peak efficiency.

Cluster Autoscaling is helpful for improving cloud resource optimization, but it doesn’t eliminate application waste. Watch the video to learn how Cluster Autoscaling can't fix the entire issue of application inefficiencies, but how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer can enhance it and ensure it utilizes resources accordingly.