Understanding the cost landscape – is the cloud the way to go?

Cost management in platform engineering begins with a good understanding of cost drivers within your infrastructure and how some platform components might influence those. Cost drivers are also elements that directly impact the total cost of your operations. Understanding and later identifying these can help in making informed decisions to provide cost-oriented and optimized platforms.

To cloud or not to cloud – that’s the question

For the past few years, there has been almost no way around a cloud adoption strategy. During those years, the movement has faced counterweights from companies that have successfully de-migrated, claiming that their on-premise setup is cheaper, better, and all they need. Repatriation is what this is called. The numbers of those doing this are not very clear and strongly depend on what is considered part of it. It became very famous as HEY/Basecamp/37signals, and their...