How Farfetch is facing the Cloud cost challenge
summary
Farfetch builds ICON (Infrastructure Cost Optimized Now) and adopts the FinOps framework to cut cloud waste it already splits hosting costs by team and service, runs BigQuery + Looker reports for daily visibility, and uses DataGenie anomaly detection that posts Slack alerts; an infra cost pipeline step shows estimated daily spend before deployment so engineers see an 86 EUR example and reconsider changes. The team targets multi cloud reporting, training short modules, and cites ~35% wasted cloud spend industry-wide.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 24:43Anomaly Detection Using Data Genie
- 31:00What's Next for 2022
- 43:07Six Principles of Cloud
- 48:32Cloud Usage Optimization
- 49:20Organizational Alignment
- 50:44Forecasting
- 55:47Professional Certified Training Course
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