One of the first hurdles I faced while starting my FinOps journey was to become familiar with how IT works behind the scenes. I thought I had a decent understanding of technology, but as it turned out, I had no idea of how many components were needed to power Apps behind the scenes, let alone how these interlinked with each other. In Part 1 of these articles I said that there is only a handful of hardware components that you need to build your infrastructure: Compute, Storage, Network Interfaces and Databases (although this last one really is just another compute), and that it is in the software where all the possibilities open up and services start to being offered. So the question now is, why is this so important? How much software do I really need to achieve my goal? The answer is, a lot. Like, really, a lot lot. You see, in the past (and specially before the internet) we relied on our desktop computers to be able to handle all operations of a given application. If you remember...