Mohamed Labouardy

Practical FinOps

Practical FinOps reveals practical strategies to measure and reduce your cloud spend. It’s based on pioneering techniques that author Mohamed Labouardy has developed working with engineering and finance teams across fast-scaling companies. In it, you’ll find the lesser-known areas where companies bleed cloud costs, from Kubernetes and shared services to multi-cloud egress. Every technique is illustrated with real-world examples, from building a Cloud Asset Inventory that can organize and visualize your resources, to modeling the cost of an AI/ML pipeline.

The book goes far deeper than just cost-saving optimization techniques. You’ll learn how to build visibility, enforce accountability, automate guardrails, and embed FinOps across your organization. Plus, the book’s example SQL queries, billing reports, and multi-cloud workflows can be applied to whatever vendor you’re working with. You’ll even see how LLMs and emerging AI tools can help automate your cloud cost optimization even further!

Pipeline as Code

In Pipeline as Code you’ll learn to build reliable CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications. With Jenkins as the backbone, you’ll programmatically control all the pieces of your pipeline via modern APIs. Hands-on examples include building CI/CD workflows for distributed Kubernetes applications, and serverless functions. By the time you’re finished, you’ll be able to swap manual UI-based adjustments with a fully automated approach!