In this revealing episode of "Now That's IT," Luis Giraldo, Chief Experience Officer at ScalePad, shares his unique journey from a world-class musician to a revered MSP advocate, discussing cthe pivotal transitions and decisions that shaped his career and how his background in music provided a rhythmic foundation for his innovative approach to MSP advocacy.

In this episode, we delve into the relationship between Azure Cost Management and security in cloud computing with FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson and Microsoft MVP for Security Nino Crudele. Learn how security measures impact cloud costs and explore strategies for balancing robust security with cost-effectiveness. Discover the crucial role of governance, policy enforcement, and FinOps in optimizing both cost and security postures.

Hosted by: Louis-Victor Jadavji and Abhishek Singh from Taloflow Guests: Gopinath Balakrishnan from Google, Todd Kesselman from Taloflow.

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems.

Catch Solomon Hykes (Co-founder of @Docker and @Dagger) shares stories from the early days of Docker, the rollercoaster journey leading to 20 million active developers worldwide, the heavy crown of a tech leader and his vision to revolutionize CI/CD with Dagger today. Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.

The latest updates in Turbo360 bring several notable features and enhancements. Access policies for Service Principals now enable users to define scopes. Network Diagrams in Azure Documenter provide visual representations of network architecture. Cost Analyzer introduces Idle Disks in Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimization. Furthermore, Rightsizing recommendations now offer the ability to restrict to the same SKU family.

Shift FinOps Left In this FinOps on Azure episode, Mike (A FinOps certified practitioner) joins Michiel (Azure Cost Optimization Specialist) to discuss the concept of Shift left with FinOps - moving cloud financial operations & cost optimization earlier into the app development lifecycle. Michiel explains why most companies struggle with lack of cloud cost awareness and how to get started shifting FinOps left. He covers selecting a proof of concept team, providing FinOps training, tooling for visibility into costs/budgets, anomaly detection, and optimization techniques.

Safety is a key element in navigating AI within the automotive ecosystem. 🚗 Listen on Spotify about the future implications of AI in automotive, as discussed by Bertrand Boisseau, our automotive industry lead at Canonical.

In this clip, Colette explains why focusing on coming up with a list of action items post-incident is a big mistake. About the episode: What if we told you that everything you thought you knew about incident response was wrong. Well, at least some of it. That some of the things you’ve been doing for years might not actually be having the impact you thought they did. Or, even worse, that some of the assumptions you’ve been making have actually been having a negative impact on you, your team and your organization.

In this clip, Colette explains what the underlying issue is with DORA metrics. About the episode: What if we told you that everything you thought you knew about incident response was wrong. Well, at least some of it. That some of the things you’ve been doing for years might not actually be having the impact you thought they did. Or, even worse, that some of the assumptions you’ve been making have actually been having a negative impact on you, your team and your organization.