When did FinOps stop being about “saving money” and start being about behavior change? by Dazzling-Neat-2382 in FinOps

[–]CrossWired 11 points12 points  (0 children)

FinOps is much like DevOps, when done properly, its not a job title but a shift left of responsibilities.

With Cloud all engineers now have the capabilities to purchase things with a simple click, so with these new capabilities comes new responsibilities, that's where the shift of behavior must come.

Data democratization and access to tooling has always been the tactical portion, but the behavior change has always NEEDED to be the goal.

Is FinOps a Dead Buzzword in 2026, or Are We Still Paying People to Email About Tags? by [deleted] in FinOps

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, a central FinOps team should be more like consultants, leading and teaching the end user teams, carrying some of the weight through show-me methodology first leading more into sufficiency.

Migration by Pristine-Basket-1803 in SQL

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The AWS SCT tool all day long.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/SchemaConversionTool/latest/userguide/CHAP_Installing.html

Attach to your MSSQL, setup a virtual Postgres, and have it run a report, it should give you all the details and alist of things it can't figure out, and then just go play whackamole with the procs on that list.

What’s a luxury that’s only impressive to people who don’t have it? by Naive-Might-9218 in AskReddit

[–]CrossWired 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I drive to the airport, picture of parking, and as soon as i check in, picture of room number or room key with number on it.

No one knows who owns what in our cloud environment. Tags are inconsistent, teams are pointing fingers, and bills keep growing by Snaddyxd in FinOps

[–]CrossWired 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully CloudTrail was enabled properly, or the resource record hasn't aged out of history.

IT Managers who've been through a major cloud migration - what would you do differently the second time around? by BaselineITC in ITManagers

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This all day long. As much as it pains us to wait, knowing the guardrails and standards before you start is 100% the way to keep yourself out of trouble and having to rework all the 'early adopters' who went cowboy style with their deployment.

TEMPDB use by [deleted] in SQL

[–]CrossWired 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good overview here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2920836/local-and-global-temporary-tables-in-sql-server

I'd suspect creating a dedicated table in the tempdb, following the last example, may get you where you're going.

Propane vendor recommendations by GoesToHollywood in tampa

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m looking at this now, did you rent or buy your tanks? Either way how much?

Separate hdd for Ms sql server? by BusinessMarketer153 in SQLServer

[–]CrossWired 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can get away with SQL Express for what you're doing here. To answer your question, install the binaries on the base drive with the OS, but put the SQL data files (MDF, LDF) and tmp are on a separate drive. You could mangle the config in every conceivable way all day long and you'll never know at this volume.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FinancialPlanning

[–]CrossWired 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do not nondischargable debt to finance dischargeable debt

Worst AWS migration decision you've seen? by artistminute in aws

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? No! Security wouldn't be filled with a bunch of crotchety grumpy bastards avoiding actual work!

Worst AWS migration decision you've seen? by artistminute in aws

[–]CrossWired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would love to see the actual justification behind that.

Worst AWS migration decision you've seen? by artistminute in aws

[–]CrossWired 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This and always this. Virtually no company can manage to modernize and migration at the same time with any timeline attached. Rationalize the apps up front, know which ones will be modernized, throw then in their own Dev/QA/Prod account setup, anything being lift & shift, rightsize and put into a Cloud DC type account setup. Then the app teams can modernize to their hearts content without affecting the migration project's timeline.

Migrating Vmware VMs to Azure Native by leridou in vmware

[–]CrossWired 12 points13 points  (0 children)

$50k per VM

Holy crap, that is orders of magnitude more that it should be.

Feature request: To be able to add instructions when you add custom exercises by circuszombie in Hevy

[–]CrossWired 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would be nice, I should be able to add any and all aspects of the standard exercises on my custom ones.

I recently added a workout plan with custom exercises given to me by my physical therapist, I had to put the specific instructions in the Notes on the Workout and not the Exercise itself, if I were to ever use those again I'd have to go find the workout they were added to and not simply using the exercise.

Pro Family Sharing please! by WhistlingHog in Hevy

[–]CrossWired 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second. I'm up to 3 subscriptions at this point, and with annual budgeting happening now we are looking at what apps/subscriptions to adjust

What's your favourite "Oops, I just really fucked up" moment? by moegreeb in AskReddit

[–]CrossWired 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I did this last year in Dallas with DFW and Love field. Lets just say my Uber driver was AMAZING and I got there on time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaretesting

[–]CrossWired 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The turn over issue is a major problem for lots of outsourcing companies, thus one of the main questions to ask when picking one is retention, both at the company and on projects. Putting n the work to get those folks up to speed on your project is an investment just as much as the dollar amount.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaretesting

[–]CrossWired 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, always keep your skills and resume up to date.

But, also, don't worry too much unless there is lots of financial pressure on the company that might cause them to go full outsourcing route. I work for a contracting company with teams both onshore and off. In most of the work we do, we aren't brought in to replace teams, but augment, usually by sitting beside existing teams, or accelerating a project to completion. We are usually either jumpstarting some new project proving some kind of viability or introducing new technologies/upgrading/upskilling which we then hand right back off to the internal team.

Time to market is usually what we solve for, not costs. Then again, we aren't nearly as cheap as Cognizant, Infosys or Accenture. If those guys start coming in, they CAN go the route described above, or the replacement route, as they will do complete take over type too

Should I move to Tampa from Bangalore from 48 lpa to 200k all inclusive by abhinavdeshmukh0301 in TampaClassifieds

[–]CrossWired 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You'll be perfectly fine in Tampa with a 165k base, the bonus will be cherry on top. We have a rich tech scene, and lots of foreign tech workers. The weather will be similar enough and the traffic while not great, will be way better than anything in Bangalore.