By Dann Berg Photo from Usplash In my article Margins are the new budgets, I talk about the benefits of having an advanced margin-based view of your business, which can help reduce unnecessary “detective work” digging into spend anomalies, and replace more old-school budgeting practices. I want to explore that…

By Dann Berg Photo from Usplash An attendee at a recent NYC FinOps Meetup raised an interesting question to the group: how do you handle setting budgets and tracking spend against those budgets? …

By Dann Berg ❗ Feel free to skip the fluff and navigate directly to the raw People Page template. I recently shared the template that I created for my Daily Notes, and many people found it useful. …

By Dann Berg Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash I started publishing my newsletter The Dann Chronicles in October of 2020. For those on the receiving end, that first newsletter may have seemed out-of-the-blue. But for me, it was a long time coming. By then, I already had a fairly…

By Dann Berg Author’s Note: I’m starting a new article series that I’m calling “ Ask a FinOps Practitioner.” I’ll often get messages from members of the community with specific questions, given my role as Ambassador at the FinOps Foundation, host of the NYC FinOps Meetup, and occasional publisher of…

By Dann Berg Photo from Usplash This is a written version of the talk I gave at the FinOps X 2022 conference in Austin, Texas called “ And Then There Was FinOps: Creating and Scaling your Cloud-Native FinOps Practice.” …

By Dann Berg A little over four years ago I got an email from a recruiter at Datadog. At the time, I was working at a programmatic ad-buying company called MediaMath, helping build out its data centers. …

By Dann Berg I’ve always loved reading books, but hated any reading related to school. That’s because for me, reading is a relaxing and entertaining activity. And reading for school meant interrupting that flow state take notes and process information. I never wanted to do that. …

By Dann Berg ❗ Feel free to skip the fluff and navigate directly to the raw Daily Note template. I’ve officially drunk the Obsidian Kool-Aid. While I still think my Daily Driver Task Management System is the best way to manage your to-dos, I’ve moved my entire note-taking system to…