screenshot taken from: https://cloudchipr.com/
When
Tuesday, 3rd November 2026, 5:00pm to 10:30pm
Where
Reply, Lützowstraße 106, Berlin, Germany
Hosting Organization
Berlin FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization
Participation Fee
Free Entrance
Agenda
Socializing, Host Intro, Talk 1, 5-Minutes-Break, Talk 2, Socializing
Topics Covered
FinOps Niche, Venue Sponsor Cortex Reply & Short Introduction Round (Host Intro), The Enduring Necessity of FinOps (Talk 1), Digging Deeper Beyond the FinOps Dashboard (Talk 2)
I’ve learned something today
- The PM-Summit 2026 will take place on November 24–25 in Düsseldorf. The event will bring together up to 300 project management professionals for insightful talks, workshops, and networking opportunities. The program will also feature a talk on Enterprise Agility.
- The Manifesto for Enterprise Agility redefines agility as an enterprise-wide leadership mindset. It emphasizes purpose-driven leadership, human centricity, continuous reinvention, and shared value creation. Enterprise Agility is the ability of an organization to adapt at scale while maintaining strategic direction. It empowers people, accelerates decision-making, builds resilience, and turns uncertainty into opportunities for sustainable growth and lasting impact.
- The Hacker News Show HN page is a platform where creators share projects, products, and innovations that others can try. The Show HN Guidelines explain how to present these projects and encourage authenticity, openness, and constructive feedback. Projects should be non-trivial, reflecting meaningful personal effort, originality, and genuine commitment rather than quickly [AI-]generated ideas. Beyond Hacker News, these principles are applied in product development, innovation communities, and organizations to test ideas, engage users, and improve solutions through real-world feedback.
- Cloudchipr found that Team Cashback Programs are a more universally effective way to foster cost awareness than leaderboards, which often trigger mixed reactions. By contractually reinvesting a share of savings into shared team experiences, such as a trip to Barcelona, cost optimization becomes a collective incentive rather than an individual competition.
- Rule-based dimensions in FinOps use custom logic to translate cloud metadata into meaningful business categories, such as teams, departments, or cost centers. They enable more accurate cost allocation.
- AWS EKS network costs often appear as unallocated because AWS tracks charges for NAT Gateways, load balancers, and data transfers at the infrastructure level, without automatically assigning them to individual pods or namespaces. AWS Split Cost Allocation Data (SCAD) mainly distributes compute costs based on CPU and memory usage, so additional network monitoring and cost-allocation tools are needed to identify which workloads generate which network costs.
- The voodoo doll at the venue was slightly concerning, but overall, the place was lit:
picture taken at venue
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