The Finoperator

Cloud Discount Instruments: From Tactical to Strategic

A high level guide for engineering leads

Aug 19 • 

John Grubb

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June 2025

Building FinOps Data Infrastructure That Scales with FOCUS

Here’s how I got into Finops: a request to "help make sense of our cloud costs" led to building out data pipelines for each cloud vendor that we used.

Jun 18 • 

John Grubb

1

April 2025

The FinOperator's view of FinOps

Wherein we discuss what an income statement is and why you should care about it, especially if you're not in the Finance team.

Apr 13 • 

John Grubb

1

February 2025

Re: naming things

💡 This is largely from a previous blog, but this concept has been stuck in my head again lately, so I'm repurposing.

Feb 6 • 

John Grubb

January 2025

Square 1, from a few years beyond.

What I'd like to have told younger me, specifically on the topic of getting started on visibility of the billing data.

Jan 16 • 

John Grubb

November 2024

Rightsizing - show, don't tell

Hello reader.

Nov 6, 2024 • 

John Grubb

August 2024

Cost allocation 101: building the foundations

💡 Number 2 in a series on Cost Allocation.

Aug 19, 2024 • 

John Grubb

July 2024

DBT and FinOps data - a match made in heaven

💡Hello reader 👋, I just got back from FinOps X - the big yearly FinOps conference - and am feeling inspired to tackle a series that's been brewing in…

Jul 2, 2024 • 

John Grubb

June 2024

FinOps FOCUS, succinctly

I attended the FinOps Roadshow in New York back in the late winter, and FOCUS was a large topic.

Jun 28, 2024 • 

John Grubb

EBS - monthly pricing means monthly pricing

I just made a rather surprising discovery that I wanted to quickly share/jot down regarding EBS.

Jun 6, 2024 • 

John Grubb

February 2024

Cloud Computing is Fractional Reserve Banking

⚠️ I've never seen this framing before and I can't find it anywhere on the internet so that means one of two things, but here goes...

Feb 22, 2024 • 

John Grubb

The Rosetta Stone

Hi there, I'm going to try to re-prime the pump with a quick thought today about the overall nature of FinOps as a profession, at least as we practice…

Feb 9, 2024 • 

John Grubb