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Oct 2023
38m 54s

Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup

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Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today. 

Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.

Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?

Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on? 

Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams? 

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