Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report
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IT support -> Scottish Parliament -> Lloyds Bank -> Capgemini, with some stories along the way!
Alison will happily unplug your network cables for you
We cover the 2025 State of FinOps report
We get hot takes from our expert.
"Workload optimization and waste reduction is the top priority by a clear margin"
"In the next 12 months, governance and optimization are top for future priorities"
"“Organizational Alignment” still the top way to achieve priorities but “Investment and Tooling” has risen significantly"
"Practitioners are increasing effort in many capabilities while reducing effort in very few"
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Special Guest: Alison McIntyre.
Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence
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Chris has a very unusual story of how he eventually landed into his senior role. Buckle in!
Chris is breaking records in style, with an email whoopsie to all customers
TikTok Misinformation Is Warping Young People's Understanding of ADHD (sciencealert.com)
“of the top 100 most-viewed TikTok videos tagged for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) content, fewer than half matched the professional diagnostic criteria for the condition.”
“using the top 100's five most accurate and five least accurate videos, as judged by clinical psychologists. These 10 clips were then shown to 843 undergraduates taking an introductory psychology course, who were asked to rate them based on their perceived educational value. While the best five videos scored an average of 3.6 from psychologists for accuracy, they only got a score of 2.8 from the students. The worst five videos for accuracy scored 1.1 from psychologists, but 2.3 from students.”
From Wes Streeting: “Here’s the other thing, mental wellbeing, illness, it’s a spectrum and I think definitely there’s an overdiagnosis, but there’s too many people being written off and, to your point about treatment, too many people who just aren’t getting the support they need. So if you can get that support to people much earlier, then you can help people to either stay in work or get back to work.”
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Special Guest: Chris Knight.
We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more.
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Surely someone in Ops has seen something go wrong... with account balances?
Hot Takes, and what Dave thinks of them:
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Special Guest: Dave McNeill.
We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.
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## Breaking Prod Leaderboard
We have a new winner! With 3 distinct stories!
Special Guest: Raxit Ramani.
We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job.
Who is Sam Jones?
loosely...
Frontend Dev
-> Team Lead @ gamesys
---> Eng. Manager @ Monzo
-----> Director of Eng. @ Benifex
Quickfire Questions
Breaking Prod
The near miss that could've topped our leaderboard, working on trading systems
## News
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (IMDb)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (IMDb)
Canada vs. USA ice hockey match, 3 fights in first 9 seconds of play (YouTube)
Rax talks about Scaled Agile frameworks
Listen to the end to hear this episodes bloopers!
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Special Guest: Sam Jones.
We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like.
Well that won't earn you a BAFTA! Nikki does her homework.
Research from Dylan Yamada-Rice on Exploring Children's attitides towards notions fo the digital good through hybrid arts
This is Classic Club playlist, dance anthems (apple music)
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our Side album, Alternative (apple music)
Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes album, electronic (apple music)
Cloud Dialogues podcast from our guest on episode 7, Georgia Smith
The Power of Bad and How to Overcome it
Am I being unreasonable? (BBC iPlayer)
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Special Guest: Nikki Stearman.
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Working in government on a project with other consultancies also contributing. Are they in competition?
Lovely personal github readme
Clean sheet, but has seen a team unable to deploy to prod for over a month!
You’ve had a big career change.
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Special Guest: Chris Hunter.
Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time.
Clean Sheet, or Big Bang?
Marie has a podcast exclusive for us, on the post office scandal. Bloody toffee-crisp eaters!
Old news, but relevant:
Chris Hunter joins us talking about coding bootcamps
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Special Guest: Marie Wigmore.
James is dropping tables like it's hot... in the first week
Data. Big Data. HUGE Data.
What's it like to leave after more than 10 years at one company? Why the change? Why not sooner?
Special Guest: James Balloch.
After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here!
Are we dry January-ing? No.
Resolutions:
What's it like being a Consultant Strategist?
Companies are going full on RTO - why? Are governments pressuring big business back into the office?
Georgia wastes 50k on unnecessary cloud spend, currently ranked about 2nd on our "Breaking Prod" leaderboard.
Is the future of relationships just dating a robot?
Georgia has been involved in the disability and age care space. Some of the problems we've encountered, and how we can tackle them.
How does Georgia fit it all in?
Michael recommends getting a Stanley Cup
We're hoping to have Sam Jones on, talking about burnout, journalling, and plenty more fun stuff.
Special Guest: Georgia L. Smith.
We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more
We've got some quickfire questions for JP on all things recuitment.
JP also recommends The Day of the Jackal
Michael has finished Nuclear War: A Scenario
Hidden City - a real-world texting adventure to help James Bond
Special Guest: Jean-Paul Ashby.
It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it.
Data Center Repatriation.
Why DHH moved 37signals from public cloud to on-prem, here's his blogs on How it started vs. How it's going.
Is this reverting back to on-premise becoming commonplace?
Has the sales pitch for public cloud shifted?
Special Guest: Ian Reeves.
We're still here for number 4.
Technical diagrams
Incidents
All our subscriptions
A.K.A. Not news.
Stuff we didn't mention:
Half a cup of water for every chatGPT interaction? Is this real?
Michael's got 2 gigs, one of which is a Mark Lanegan tribute gig.
Mark recommends some HipHop, Joey Ba.Da.$$
Truck Festival tickets released
We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups.
Do we trust Eero? Do we trust China?
Home experiments.
Having guests in your smart home.
In the news:
Smart Home Equipment
Music
Blogs
Books
Movies
Special Guest: Fredrik Alm.
We're back for episode two!
We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week.
Special Guest: Mitan Patel.
Who are these psychpaths that don't get imposter syndrome?
Special Guest: Jess O'Neill.
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