Posts Tagged finops

Future of the Cloud: 10 Trends Shaping 2025 and Beyond

Future of the Cloud: 10 Trends Shaping 2025 and Beyond

In 2025, several trends will dominate cloud computing, driving innovation, efficiency, and scalability. From Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to AI/ML, platform engineering to multi-cloud and hybrid strategies, and security practices, let’s explore the 10 biggest emerging trends.

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The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting platform engineering to optimize their software delivery and operations. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams to provide reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery. Additionally, by 2027, 80% of large enterprises will leverage platform engineering to scale DevOps initiatives in hybrid cloud environments effectively.

This shift is driven by the rise of cloud adoption, where many enterprises face the challenge of uncoordinated application teams deploying workloads in different ways across various cloud platforms. This siloed approach often results in a lack of standardization, security risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Platform engineering offers a strategic solution to these issues. This guide provides the essential steps to successfully implement platform engineering, from laying the foundation to scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) for future growth.

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FinOps With Pulumi

FinOps With Pulumi

What is FinOps?

The FinOps Foundation eloquently defines FinOps as “an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.” Simply put, FinOps is the continuous effort to control cloud spend.

Just as organizations have adopted operations-focused best practices into software development cycles and have considered how to best insert security best practices along the way, financial best practices may also be codified by developers writing cloud programs.

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