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Date Published
Author
Chris Cooney
Word count
1072
Language
English
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None

Summary

Coralogix has adopted FinOps strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure spending, emphasizing the use of Continuous Profiling, a tool traditionally used for debugging, to gain detailed insights into resource utilization. Despite the widespread increase in cloud expenditures, with companies often exceeding their budgets and wasting significant portions of their spending, Coralogix successfully utilized Continuous Profiling to address inefficiencies in their system. Faced with a high-demand event from a major customer, they identified a bottleneck caused by the io.circe JSON parser, which led to spikes in CPU usage. By switching to a more efficient parsing library, they achieved a 50% reduction in cloud spending and CPU usage for that service. This experience underscored the broader applicability of profiling tools beyond traditional engineering roles, suggesting their potential value for FinOps and DevOps teams to improve resource management and cost efficiency.