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Tim O'Brien

The Opportunity Meeting

The following is FinOps fiction, and here’s the formal disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events…

14 min readDec 21, 2023

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Paying Attention: The Best Strategy for Cloud Cost

Controlling costs in the cloud can often seem daunting. There’s a new database technology to figure out every week, and recent trends like…

3 min readMay 14, 2023

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Debunking the Myth of the Heroic Engineer

Do you remember the popular 80s-90s TV show MacGyver? The show’s protagonist was known for his ingenious engineering solutions, often using…

4 min readMay 8, 2023

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Debunking the Myth of the Heroic Engineer

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Cloud Cost Management as a “Multi-Front” Conflict

I want to summarize some of the things I’ve learned that might surprise people that are jumping into Cloud Cost Management, and, just a…

4 min readMar 27, 2023

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Cloud Cost is next… actually it’s now

The clouds and technologies we use in 2019 are a by-product the last decade of low interest rates. As these rates change it dramatically…

3 min readSep 10, 2019

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Every Time I Speak: Adapting to Failure

I’m writing about stuttering because I’ve come to the realization that no one understands this disability. Also, I’ve noticed that in some…

4 min readJan 26, 2018

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Hire Failures

Good software architects are not educated in classrooms they are forged in the “focus rooms” of catastrophic failure. This is a pessimistic…

2 min readJul 6, 2017

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We all read your Medium blog and talk about what it means

I guess this is a Meta-post, but I’d just like to let you know something. We all get together and talk about your Medium posts. We…

1 min readOct 17, 2015

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10 Steps to Get Your Crazy Logs Under Control

Two days ago I wrote a post about how “developers tailing the logs” is a common pattern. A couple people responded to me directly asking…

9 min readOct 30, 2013

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In the War Room, “Let me take a look at the logs…”

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to help a large company upgrade a fairly critical piece of software that was running everything. I can…

5 min readOct 29, 2013

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Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

I write and I code. Not always in that order. I do infrastructure and architecture at Walmart. At work? Cloud Cost and Reliability (Opinions are my own.)

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