Cloud-native development has unlocked unprecedented flexibility and speed—but it’s also introduced new layers of complexity across operations and security. In a recent episode of AppDevANGLE, Paul Nashawaty hosted Ryan Sosin, Principal Product Manager at DoiT, and Matthew Warner, CEO of Blumira, to unpack what this means for developers. The key message? Developers sit at the intersection of cloud costs and security risks, and the tools we use need to reflect that reality.
CloudOps Isn’t Just an Ops Problem Anymore
As Ryan Sosin explained, even technically advanced teams can find themselves blindsided by cloud costs. Whether it’s unmanaged Kubernetes clusters or sprawling workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure, cost observability is often bolted on too late. According to theCUBE Research, 65% of organizations struggle with cloud spend management—especially when operating in multi-cloud environments.
DoiT’s approach? Bring cost insights upstream. By giving developers visibility into usage trends and budget implications before code hits production, teams can architect more efficiently and avoid downstream billing surprises.
“If you wait until the invoice comes in, it’s already too late. Developers need real-time feedback on how their choices impact cost.”
—Ryan Sosin, DoiT
Security Needs to Be Shifted Left—and Made Actionable
Matthew Warner pointed out that SecOps challenges mirror CloudOps in many ways. Teams are inundated with alerts, but still struggle to understand risk in context. With modern systems spanning containers, serverless, and edge environments, traditional security postures no longer work.
Blumira focuses on making security insights accessible to developers without turning them into security experts. That means surfacing the right data at the right time—ideally during build, test, and deploy phases of the SDLC.
“Security tools shouldn’t overwhelm your dev pipeline. They should guide you, like a smart guardrail—not a blocker.”
—Matthew Warner, Blumira
Building Smarter, Not Just Faster
Both experts emphasized that developer experience (DevEx) is the missing link in many FinOps and SecOps strategies. The future lies in tighter integration across toolchains—connecting the dots between CI/CD, observability, cost, and threat detection.
For developers, this means embracing platforms that don’t just show logs and metrics, but explain them. It means choosing services that give you control over the data you generate, the security you enforce, and the budgets you influence.
Final Thought
As infrastructure complexity grows and AI-driven automation accelerates, developers need a new kind of observability—one that spans performance, cost, and risk. We’re no longer building in silos. Every deployment is a financial decision and a security risk.
The takeaway? Start treating visibility as a first-class feature in your stack. Because when your code ships to production, it’s not just what it does that matters—it’s how much it costs, how safe it is, and how it scales.
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