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Here's a short thread on something I see folks miss most of the time when I consult with enterprises. Cost control / spend optimization or some version of that theme is top of mind for most companies right now. You see that in the state of the cloud report among other places.
Here are a couple quick primers from conversations with folks I respect in the industry. Our questions are wrong: https://bit.ly/2Nv6x5a . And we're not wrestling enough with value vs. spend. https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/1266423772485234688?s=20.
Cost / spend isn't the real problem. Whenever you have competing priorities, it's best to start with what something is worth to you before or in parallel with cost. Too many enterprises spend 80%+ of their time on cost then value / worth is an afterthought. #ThursdayThought
We're using cost as a proxy for value b/c we don't even know how to start that conversation. If cost seems hard to the enterprise then value seems near impossible - especially if you don't have some notion of chargeback / showback in place. There are multiple things orgs
struggle with in the enterprise around transformation but I think this is one of the biggest if not the biggest issues. Cost & value are totally disconnected which also goes back to expectations. If I put this in the cloud then costs will surely go down right? Maybe / maybe not.
Lost of companies have also seen that they're reducing the cost of apps the business no longer cares about so there are diminishing returns for all this work we're doing with fancy tools & consulting engagements. I've love to have some industry friends chime in on this discussion
@CTOAdvisor @tcrawford @sarbjeetjohal @stu @dvellante @furrier @mrledford1498 @SFoskett @QuinnyPig @mthiele10 @digitalcloudgal @Ned1313 @ecbanks. We can talk about K8s, Serverless, PaaS, etc till we're blue in the face. Won't matter if we keep missing this.
My theme this year is that tech is the easy part. Data & behavior are the hard parts. We have to do the hard work of figuring out what these apps & workloads are actually worth. We're putting $10k transmissions in 90yr old grandma's 20 yr old car and she stopped driving last yr.
