Ivica Kolenkaš
Ivica is a cloud engineer mixed with a software developer, passionate about Python and infrastructure-as-code. A problem solver with a firm belief that not every problem is a tech problem. Ivica is currently leading the Data platform team in one of the biggest fashion enterprises worldwide.
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Could accidentally spending 40% more on your cloud bill actually be a good thing?
A company with decent operational monitoring, with good coding practices, with everything-as-code approach discovered they had an outlier. This outlier, this single application, managed to inflate the monthly bill by over 40%. More importantly, it allowed us to reflect on the way we work, the way we react to incidents and allowed us to question, and redefine, several dogmas.
This is a story about ownership, about individual mistakes and organizational changes. It is a story about learning and improving yourself, your systems and your organization even from mistakes, because a mistake is truly a mistake only if you don't learn from it.
Share with me these costly learnings for free, and prepare yourself to turn mistakes into opportunities.