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299: The growing divide between developers and FinOps (with Martin Reynolds from Harness)

March 11, 2025 0:13:53 2.6 MB ( 7.5 MB less) Downloads: 0

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Martin Reynolds, field CTO of Harness, about the misalignment between developers and FinOps. The company recently did a report that backed up the claims that developers and FinOps aren't properly aligned, and they talk about some of the findings of that report. 

Some key points of discussion include

  • The fact that over half of developers say their cloud purchasing commitments are based on guesswork
  • The lack of data on idle cloud resources, unused resource, and over or underprovisioned workloads
  • Processes and tools that can help with alignment
  • How the adoption of AI has contributed to the problem