Steve Cole

Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off. In 1942, the British Royal Navy drove two hollow concrete pylons into a sandbar called Rough Sands, 11 kilometers off the Suffolk coast, bolted a platform across the top, and stationed 150 sailors there to shoot at German aircraft. The war ended. The sailors

Ever stop to think about how many different ways you press the Enter key in a day? Maybe instead of Enter the one on your keyboard says Return, or maybe it has a broken arrow drawing on it. Not like Broken Arrow, the 90s blockbuster where John Travolta stole a

I like to simplify entropy as "the lowest energy state". The lowest energy state (highest entropy) in nature is not ordered, it's chaos. Or in simpler terms: broken. Leaking pipes, torn clothing, Xfinity offline. Stacking rocks can be challenging; identifying the flattest surfaces and orienting for

I remember seeing Forrest Gump in the theaters and telling myself I'm never going to know what's real or not on-screen. That feather and the "cameos". How long ago was that? Not sure I want to know. I'm starting to wonder where

Have a few ideas I'm cooking for the next couple blogs. In the meantime, I've been goofing around with a video idea for my explainer series. Scroll to the end for the video. Whether you read or watch, hope you enjoy... In the Beginning For years,

S3 Standard storage has been $0.023/GB to start since December 2016. AWS announced 107 price reductions between 2006 and 2021. The early reductions were significant because the early prices were high. Cloud was new, scale was small, and the providers were pricing to cover infrastructure they were still

I'm going hard today. Collating over 100 recent articles on the FinOps space and aggregating them down to a handful of select topics, this one stood out to me like a sore thumb, screaming for attention. This is going to be a bit longer than normal. Breaking News:

I built a system at Adobe called Spot Stack. It was tiered infrastructure provisioned by Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) that delivered EC2 resources to a pre-Kubernetes container platform. It managed capacity well, and did so at the lowest cost possible. Inevitably, Auto Scaling groups improved, rendering the system I built

I've never been woken up at 2am because of Spot. That needs context, because without it, it sounds like a brag. I've been paged plenty. Or called. Pagers are a bit dated. You get the point. Editing configs on an HA pair that triggered immediately. A

Posted another video this week. It’s a double-continuation; it dives deeper on the previous video I posted and continues the FinOps thread I’ve been focussed on this month. Figured I’d post the transcript for those of you on United flights without headphones so you don’t get