Andrew Boerjan
Athene
Date: February 5, 2024 Video: 5 mins
Key Insight: Hosting weekly meetings for engineers to share tips and tricks can help establish a collaborative, cost-conscious culture.
Aside from a top-down focus and investment into FinOps, Athene also finds value in hosting a weekly ‘cloud demo’ where engineers share tips and tricks for building applications and addressing FinOps. It helps to establish a cost-conscious culture and a sense of community, while upleveling Athene’s engineers, who have experienced rapid change as Athene went from “almost no cloud presence to 100 percent cloud in probably less than five years.”