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From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost-Efficient Data Processing on K8s - Rainie Li & Ang Zhang, Pinterest
containers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimizationcloud architecture
Topic
FinOps & Cost Optimization
Managing what the cloud actually costs — allocation, reservations, right-sizing, unit economics, and the culture around spend.
- cloud cost management
- FinOps
- cost allocation
- tagging strategies
- reserved instances
- savings plans
- spot instances
- right-sizing
- cloud billing analysis
- cost forecasting
- unit economics
- showback
- chargeback
- cloud waste reduction
- cost-aware architecture
- FinOps culture
- FinOps tooling
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Talks
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Conferences
Kubernetes-Native ≠ Cloud Native: Avoiding Architecture Theater - Prerit Munjal, Groupon
containers and orchestrationcloud architecturefinops and cost optimization
Project Lightning Talk: Hami: Dynamic, Smart, Stable GPU-Sharing Middleware In Kubernetes - Mengxuan Li, Maintainer
containers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimization
Smart Routing at Scale: How Spotify's XDS Control Plane Cut 75% of Cross-Zone Traffic - Yannick Epstein & Anya Hristova, Spotify
networkingcontainers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimization
Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes: A Zero-Downtime Case Study - Joe Heyburn, Braze
database and storagecontainers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimization
Keynote: Rules of the Road for Shared GPUs: AI Inference Scheduling at Wayve - Mukund Muralikrishnan, Staff Engineer, Wayve
containers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimization
Project Lightning Talk: From Idle to Ideal: Cross‑Cluster GPU Sharing with CoHDI - Takao Indoh, Contributor
containers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimizationcloud architecture
Project Lightning Talk: OpenCost: Cost And Resource Management - Rajith Attapattu, Maintainer
finops and cost optimizationcontainers and orchestration
HashiConf 2025
3 talksA secure automation platform: Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Automation Platform, & Vault Enterprise
infrastructure as codecloud architecturefinops and cost optimization
Inside Booking.com's cloud center of excellence: Driving governance, scale, and cloud migration
infrastructure as codecloud architecturefinops and cost optimization
AI speed to value: Google Cloud & Terraform for the enterprise
infrastructure as codecloud architecturefinops and cost optimization