[davecb]

I was attracted to my current employer when the ops director said almost exactly what you did in your last sentence. He wanted our dev/ops arm to be numerate and to work in dollars and TPS.

We actually do capacity planning in dollars to this day, and did do queuing models of both batch and multi-core, multi-machine transaction processing.

[losteric]

I understood the prior post differently, in that they tied capacity planning to biz metrics rather than TPS.

For example, businesses in HR might have metrics like average case correspondence count, open rate per day, idle status, etc. The dev team would commit to certain of these metrics, and optimize both costs and these meteics. This, to me, would signal an IT organization with high status (autonomy delegated to tech leaders).

Whereas a different company might have IT committed to X TPS without the ownership of business metrics

[eastbound]

Incredible. Imaging for my startup how much it would take to translate potential features into dollars. “We can take this market of $55bn, it would take 70 features and 12 marketings, that’s 100 million per feature, but you only get it if the market develops accordingly.”

The simple fact that a large company is able to liquefy a non-linear large-blocks market into dollar amounts that you can measure, is the ultimate dream of any 1800 economist.