Infracost was recently named a cool vendor on Gartner’s Platform Engineering list. This is super exciting for us as a project, but also a great direction forward for engineers and our community as a whole 🎉 Let me take a step back. In the cloud cost space, every solution designed has started from the same…
It’s estimated that data centers consume around 1% of the global electric supply 1 and this could increase to between 3-13% by 2030 2. The wider ICT (information and communications technology) ecosystem accounts for 2% of the world’s carbon emissions, putting it on par with the entire aviation industry 3. The cloud has revolutionized how we use data centers….
“Shift left” has become a popular buzzword for both Software Engineering and DevOps. It means introducing processes earlier in the software development cycle. The “shift left” principle started with testing. In a traditional waterfall model testing is performed just before release. Shift left testing started it earlier by introducing practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD)…
Infracost helps developers and DevOps engineers get cost estimates from their IaC (Infrastructure as Code). Here’s an example of it running: The complexity of cloud costs keeps increasing – When we were building PlanForCloud in 2012 AWS had just hit 10,000 different pricing points for their services – now there are over 300,000. We found existing…