World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Move Fast, Break Budgets: FinOps in the Age of DevOps and AI

Christian Grieger

Are your engineers moving fast and breaking the cloud budget? Learn how shifting FinOps left into CI/CD pipelines empowers developers to treat cost inefficiencies exactly like software bugs.

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#1 about 3 min

Rising budget challenges in modern software development

How adopting faster deployment methods often results in unchecked financial spending.

#2 about 2 min

Understanding the velocity paradox in modern software engineering

Why eliminating technical barriers inadvertently removes financial friction for engineering teams.

#3 about 2 min

Defining FinOps and the scale of resource waste

How an engineering culture of financial accountability addresses the massive scale of wasted cloud resources.

#4 about 2 min

Managing costs from forgotten proof of concept clusters

How forgotten proof of concept environments lead to significant unexpected billing charges.

#5 about 2 min

Preventing budget drains from unoptimized artificial intelligence requests

Why setting model routing, prompt caching, and maximum token limits prevents endless artificial intelligence billing.

#6 about 2 min

Avoiding over-provisioning and default cloud provider settings

How over-provisioning for anxiety rather than actual usage inflates production infrastructure costs.

#7 about 2 min

Enforcing mandatory tagging and labeling for cloud resources

Why enforcing hard policies for resource ownership tags prevents untracked infrastructure sprawl.

#8 about 3 min

Integrating cost signals into pull requests and code

How bringing cost signals into continuous integration pipelines changes developer behavior instantly.

#9 about 2 min

Optimizing Kubernetes clusters for resource and cost efficiency

How bin packing, rightsizing tools, and spot instances massively reduce costs for modern microservices.

#10 about 2 min

Managing costs and limits for autonomous artificial intelligence agents

How semantic caching and strict API gateway limits protect budgets from recursive hallucination loops.

#11 about 3 min

Adopting successful FinOps practices from major tech companies

How major tech companies built engineering cultures that treat cost inefficiencies like software bugs.

#12 about 1 min

Bridging the gap between finance predictability and engineering speed

Why the hardest part of financial operations is prioritizing predictability alongside rapid feature development.

#13 about 3 min

Implementing a checklist for sustainable software engineering innovation

Six practical steps to maintain continuous innovation while keeping cloud and infrastructure bills predictable.

Matching moments

1:06 min

Applying FinOps practices to trace cloud infrastructure costs

Holly Cummins · LIVE

1:48 min

Optimizing cloud spend and resources through automated finops

Raz Cohen · LIVE

1:59 min

Defining a continuous cost optimization culture

Joachim Aumann Joachim Aumann +1 · World Congress 2025

3:15 min

Integrating security and financial disciplines into DevOps models

Holly Cummins · LIVE

2:01 min

Transitioning toward AI-first coding and managing token costs

Clemens Wasner Clemens Wasner +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:09 min

Shifting focus from token maxing to AI cost management

Dona Sarkar +1 · Coffee With Developers