Findlay Hilchie

Editorial

Insights from the Cloudloop platform engineering and Salesforce practice.

Articles by Findlay Hilchie

• Free Puppies or Free Beer: Understanding When to Use Open Source Software — Nov 19, 2025
  Open source tools power the modern enterprise—but not all ‘free’ software is created equal. Learn the difference between free as in beer, free as in puppy, and when to invest in paid tooling.
• Digital Dragons: Hoarding, FinOps, and the Cost of Forgotten Treasure — Nov 06, 2025
  How teams accumulate cloud clutter, and how to build a simple, cyclical loop to audit, discuss, deprecate, and delete your digital hoard — turning chaos into clarity with FinOps thinking.