FinOps practitioners are finding themselves feeling pressure to embed financial context earlier in the engineering life cycle, rather than after the bill comes in. This is according to the FinOps Foundation’s 2026 State of FinOps report, which includes responses from over 1,100 practitioners. They found that teams are wanting FinOps context earlier in the life … continue reading
The FinOps Foundation has announced the latest version of the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), aiming to solve problems related to splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness. FOCUS 1.3 adds new allocation-specific columns to enable teams to expose how they are splitting costs of shared resources, such … continue reading
OpenAI announces Codex updates The coding agent Codex can now access the internet during task execution, opening up new capabilities such as the ability to install base dependencies, run tests that need external resources, and upgrade or install packages. Internet access is turned off by default. It can be enabled when a new environment is … continue reading
Development teams and FinOps aren’t always on the same page, and lately developers have been feeling the effects of not having proper visibility into their cloud spend. In a recent episode of our podcast, we interviewed Martin Reynolds, field CTO at Harness, about the company’s recent FinOps in Focus 2025 report, which explored the ways … continue reading
