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by ham_sandwich
2674 days ago
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With the rise of lambda+managed services, I think we’ll start seeing finance and development start to blend and merge. Besides giving businesses more legibility into what specific parts of their business logic cost to operate vs. the value they generate, you can start building higher-order financial systems based on flows of capital+information within businesses. From there you can implement all sorts of financial engineering like insurance and options+derivatives that could allow businesses to do things like dial up leverage against these flows. Certainly half-baked ideas, but fun to think about the possibilities. |
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One is that not everything will fit. Lots and lots and lots of workloads exist in their current form and are not going to switch overnight. Whatever bookkeeping method that gets developed needs to deal with the mix of costing models.
Another is that you still need to assign costs. In a lot of companies this is the subject of intense corporate politics. Whether such a method is adopted will depend on who is wielding what cudgel.
Related to which: there will be cases of premature optimisation on the visible. Optimising for cost is fine, but costs often include estimates that can be overlooked. It's one thing to optimise for "least dollars spent per invocation". Another thing to optimise for "fewest pissed off customers". The latter is harder to measure but in many cases more important.
But overall? Yes. I think it could be a step forward.