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Practical articles from the people who run cloud for enterprises: FinOps, observability, Microsoft 365 security, engineering operations and managed cloud.
50 articles by 4 practitioners, each checked by a second engineer.
Featured · FinOps
FinOps is the practice of managing cloud spend as a shared business discipline. Learn how it works, its phases, roles and how to start in 90 days.
Nidhish Joy · Co-founder & CEO
1 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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Managed Services
Build a cloud backup strategy that survives ransomware and mistakes: the 3-2-1 rule, immutable backups, cross-account copies, retention and restore testing.
Nidhish Joy · 23 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Engineering Operations
How to build an offshore DevOps and platform engineering team: roles, skills, operating model, metrics and integration with your product teams.
Girish · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Digital Workplace & Security
How banks, financial services and healthcare organisations can secure Microsoft 365 and produce compliance evidence with Entra, Intune, Defender and Purview.
Joseph · 18 Sept 2026 · 5 min
Observability
How AI is changing observability and incident response: anomaly detection, automated investigation and natural-language queries, with humans kept in control.
Joseph · 16 Sept 2026 · 4 min
FinOps
AI workloads can multiply your cloud bill fast. Learn how to control GPU, training, inference and LLM API costs with FinOps practices built for AI.
Irfan Harees · 14 Sept 2026 · 5 min
Managed Services
What 24/7 cloud support should really include: true round-the-clock engineers, monitoring, response SLAs, escalation and reporting, and how to verify it.
Nidhish Joy · 11 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Engineering Operations
Compare the true cost of offshore vs domestic senior engineers: salary, overheads, hiring, attrition, management and productivity, with a TCO framework.
Girish · 9 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Digital Workplace & Security
Should you run Microsoft 365 security in-house or use a managed service? Compare cost, coverage, skills and control, plus a hybrid model that avoids lock-in.
Joseph · 7 Sept 2026 · 4 min
How to see, allocate and cut cloud spend across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
AI workloads can multiply your cloud bill fast. Learn how to control GPU, training, inference and LLM API costs with FinOps practices built for AI.
Irfan Harees · 14 Sept 2026 · 5 min
2 Sept 2026
Multi-cloud cost management made practical: unify AWS, Azure and GCP billing with FOCUS, allocate costs consistently and optimise across providers.
Irfan Harees · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min
21 Aug 2026
Understand the FinOps maturity model (Crawl, Walk, Run), how to assess your organisation's level and the practical steps to move to the next stage.
Irfan Harees · 21 Aug 2026 · 5 min
10 Aug 2026
Kubernetes costs are hard to see and easy to waste. Learn how to allocate, rightsize and reduce EKS, AKS and GKE costs with requests, autoscaling and Spot.
Nidhish Joy · 10 Aug 2026 · 4 min
29 Jul 2026
A 15-step Azure cost optimization checklist covering Azure Advisor, reservations, Hybrid Benefit, autoscaling, storage tiers and governance with Azure Policy.
Nidhish Joy · 29 Jul 2026 · 5 min
How to find and fix production problems faster with better telemetry, alerting and SLOs.
A practical guide to Kubernetes observability: what to monitor at cluster, node, pod and application level, key metrics, tools and alerting best practices.
Girish · 4 Sept 2026 · 4 min
24 Aug 2026
The Grafana LGTM stack explained: Loki for logs, Grafana for visualisation, Tempo for traces and Mimir for metrics, plus self-hosted vs Grafana Cloud.
Joseph · 24 Aug 2026 · 4 min
12 Aug 2026
Observability bills growing faster than infrastructure? Learn how to cut costs with tool consolidation, cardinality control, log tiering, sampling and retention.
Girish · 12 Aug 2026 · 4 min
31 Jul 2026
Learn how to reduce MTTR (mean time to resolve) with better detection, correlated telemetry, runbooks, clear incident roles and blameless postmortems.
Joseph · 31 Jul 2026 · 5 min
20 Jul 2026
SLOs, SLIs and error budgets explained with examples. Learn how to choose SLIs, set realistic SLO targets and use burn-rate alerts to balance speed and reliability.
Girish · 20 Jul 2026 · 5 min
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Writes about FinOps and Managed Services · 10 articles
How to secure Microsoft 365 identities, devices and data without getting in your people's way.
How banks, financial services and healthcare organisations can secure Microsoft 365 and produce compliance evidence with Entra, Intune, Defender and Purview.
Joseph · 18 Sept 2026 · 5 min
7 Sept 2026
Should you run Microsoft 365 security in-house or use a managed service? Compare cost, coverage, skills and control, plus a hybrid model that avoids lock-in.
Joseph · 7 Sept 2026 · 4 min
26 Aug 2026
Before rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot, fix oversharing and data governance. A security readiness checklist covering permissions, labels, DLP and monitoring.
Joseph · 26 Aug 2026 · 4 min
14 Aug 2026
What a Microsoft 365 security assessment covers, from identity and devices to data and email, how long it takes, and what deliverables you should expect.
Joseph · 14 Aug 2026 · 4 min
3 Aug 2026
Learn how to use Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive data in Microsoft 365, with a phased rollout plan.
Joseph · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min
How to build, run and keep offshore engineering teams that work as part of yours.
How to build an offshore DevOps and platform engineering team: roles, skills, operating model, metrics and integration with your product teams.
Girish · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min
9 Sept 2026
Compare the true cost of offshore vs domestic senior engineers: salary, overheads, hiring, attrition, management and productivity, with a TCO framework.
Girish · 9 Sept 2026 · 4 min
28 Aug 2026
How to protect intellectual property and secure offshore engineering teams: contracts, access controls, device security, code security and compliance.
Girish · 28 Aug 2026 · 4 min
17 Aug 2026
How much time-zone overlap do distributed engineering teams need? Practical overlap models for India with US, Europe and APAC, plus async practices that work.
Girish · 17 Aug 2026 · 4 min
5 Aug 2026
Engineer attrition can cripple offshore teams. Learn 9 proven practices to improve retention, from ownership and career paths to integration and leadership.
Girish · 5 Aug 2026 · 4 min
How to run cloud operations around the clock, and how to choose and work with a provider.
Build a cloud backup strategy that survives ransomware and mistakes: the 3-2-1 rule, immutable backups, cross-account copies, retention and restore testing.
Nidhish Joy · 23 Sept 2026 · 4 min
11 Sept 2026
What 24/7 cloud support should really include: true round-the-clock engineers, monitoring, response SLAs, escalation and reporting, and how to verify it.
Nidhish Joy · 11 Sept 2026 · 4 min
19 Aug 2026
How ITIL 4 applies to cloud operations: incident, problem, change and request management adapted for AWS, Azure and GCP, plus how ITIL works with DevOps and SRE.
Irfan Harees · 19 Aug 2026 · 4 min
7 Aug 2026
A practical guide to cloud disaster recovery: RTO and RPO explained, four DR strategies from backup-and-restore to active-active, costs and how to test DR.
Nidhish Joy · 7 Aug 2026 · 4 min
27 Jul 2026
How to transition cloud operations to a managed service provider safely: a five-phase onboarding plan with knowledge transfer, shadowing and parallel operations.
Irfan Harees · 27 Jul 2026 · 4 min
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