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hkh
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About hkh
Founded PlanForCloud - acquired by RightScale. Founded AbarCloud - acquired by Snapp.
In Orange County right now;
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Comment #48405954
When we started, we thought everyone could use it from startups to medium sized companies. What we learnt is that the most value comes for the enterprises. The reason is they have …
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Comment #46713373
Do you think that only applies to Carbon, or with Cloud Costs too?
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Comment #46712379
I'll go one step further - Ali (my brother and founder), has a PhD in cloud cost modelling! 9 million live prices across AWS, Azure and GCP is pretty insane.
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Comment #46712367
hahaha we could also track if you typed too fast! ... actually, this is an actual idea, if you use AI to generate the code ... hmmm; that would then be a fun project vs a cloud cos…
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Comment #46711874
haha ahh I think it goes in waves in the US, but you got me - I grew up in Scotland, and recently moved to the US full time. So the EU mindset is still here :)
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Comment #46709924
Lerc - they are in the UK, so some of them are offline, but I text their CEO :) Check this out: https://greenpixie.com/gpx-data Thoughts?
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Comment #46709837
Totally - something I've been thinking a lot about... I got pulled into these diets at one point in my life - I remember doing atkins, then went full vegan for a while, then went o…
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Comment #46709719
I appreciate the love. Yea, that was the cool thing during the research - if we reduce from a large to a medium, it both saves money and reduces carbon. Win - Win! Company can save…
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Comment #46709689
Yea, I actually saw something similar in the early days of Infracost, when we didn't track that many price points. The % change and the directionality was really helpful for engine…
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Comment #46709628
That's a great question - it is a hard thing to build for sure. We started talking to the CTO office of Google about it, and exactly as you say, it gets into the details. The folks…
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Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io ). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change befor…
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Comment #46296292
Hey! Thanks - I assume you mean the underlying data for the carbon? If so: https://greenpixie.com/gpx-data
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Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io ). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change befor…
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Comment #45968865
Hi all, Hassan here - one of the founders of Infracost. Infracost sits in Github / GitLab etc, and when an engineer makes a infrastructure code change, we show them how much the co…
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Comment #37813558
This won't impact infracost, Alistair just responded to it: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538#issuec...
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Comment #37144176
This is good - I just signed up and tried it out. I liked that I could take a picture and draw on the picture to highlight something to the team! It's like loom but for physical wo…
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Comment #37074912
hahaha love it - it'll keep evolving, and get more interesting for sure. I just think back to Dev and Ops, and how it went from a culture to a job title; testing was another one.
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Comment #37067017
Hi, I think the key issue with both the Azure policy, and the Amazon services is that they only work after a pull request has been merged. Then the build fails, and the engineer ha…
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Comment #37066687
Vantage is awesome - I've talked with Ben (their CEO) a few times. There are a lot of tools that start from the cloud bills, and give you visibility of everything (Vantage, Cloudab…
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Comment #37065607
Bingo - so Infracost will tell you before you launch anything how much it'll cost. Now scale that to a few thousand developers across a large company, and it's very impactful. Back…
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Comment #37063262
Yep, for sure! It's on the roadmap. We are friends with the folks at Pulumi too. Love what they are building, so hopefully we will get some bandwidth and add support. And Cloud For…
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Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with your cloud costs
Hi, we are Ali, Hassan, and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io/ ). Infracost helps engineers see the cost of each Terraform change before launching resou…
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