Hey Dev.to 👋

I’ve spent the last several years working as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, focused on keeping systems reliable, scalable, and — most importantly — up.

Like many SREs, my world revolved around:

SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets

Incident response and postmortems

Observability, automation, and resilience

And while uptime is critical… I started noticing something:

👉 We rarely talked about the cost of reliability.

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The Shift

As systems scale, so do cloud bills.

And at some point, I realized:

Keeping systems up is only half the problem — keeping them cost-efficient matters just as much.

That’s what pulled me toward FinOps.

Not as a replacement for SRE — but as a natural extension of it.

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Why FinOps?

Because:

Overprovisioning is easy under pressure

“Just scale it” often hides inefficiencies

Reliability decisions directly impact cost

And yet, cost is often treated as someone else’s problem.

It shouldn’t be.

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Where I’m Headed

I’m currently exploring:

Cost-aware…