Hey Dev.to 👋 I’ve spent the last several years working as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, focused on keeping systems reliable, scalable, and — most importantly — up. Like many SREs, my world revolved around: SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets Incident response and postmortems Observability, automation, and resilience And while uptime is critical… I started noticing something: 👉 We rarely talked about the cost of reliability. ⸻ The Shift As systems scale, so do cloud bills. And at some point, I realized: Keeping systems up is only half the problem — keeping them cost-efficient matters just as much. That’s what pulled me toward FinOps. Not as a replacement for SRE — but as a natural extension of it. ⸻ Why FinOps? Because: Overprovisioning is easy under pressure “Just scale it” often hides inefficiencies Reliability decisions directly impact cost And yet, cost is often treated as someone else’s problem. It shouldn’t be.…