What's the problem to solve for FinOps with the DevOps lifecycle? Today we kick off the FinOps Weekly Podcast with a very interesting discussion with Viktor Farcic, developer advocate at , and well known Youtube Creator with this channel We dive deep into the absurds of cost reduction against value, the benefits of ephemeral dev environments for reducing costs and how to survive Black Friday without getting a huge bill by the end of the month. Index of Contents 00:00 Intro 02:42 Discussion on DevOps and FinOps 04:29 Resource Management and Auto Scaling 13:37 Challenges in Dev Environments 24:30 Importance of Testing in Production 25:53 Observability and Automation 26:56 Scaling Strategies for High Traffic Events 28:41 Balancing Performance and Cost 33:30 Leveraging Alternative Cloud Providers 37:44 Adopting GitOps for Security and Efficiency 42:45 Future of AI and FinOps Follow Our Guest DevOps Toolkit (Viktor Youtube Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz8x0lVzJpb_dgWm9kPVrw  Viktor's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic/    About FinOps Weekly Join +3,000 people in our Newsletter: https://newsletter.finopsweekly.com/subscribe Follow us on Linkedin: Victor Garcia: https://linkedin.com/in/victor-garcia-rubio  Damian Munafo: FinOps Weekly: SmartClouds: Are you struggling to position your tool in the FinOps Community? We can solve that: https://cal.com/smartclouds/30min See you in the newsletter!