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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by webmaven on Saturday December 23, 2017 @11:00AM (#15994658)
Probably the biggest change looming over our industry is coding to - and deployment on - platforms that definitely are instrumented to capture exactly how much value a developer is adding (or subtracting) from the bottom line with every commit (it's a natural outgrowth of Function As A Service architectures).

It is already possible to more-or-less show how a code change (bug/fix, new feature, change in storage backend, etc.) directly affects your IAAS bill at the end of each month, and taking it a step further by tying in some instrumentation and formulas (of the sort often used to calculate the effectiveness of marketing funnels for optimization and A/B testing) to show the concomittant effect on revenue allows ROI to be calculated.

So, I am pretty sure that Finance-Oriented Programming is going to be a thing not so many years from now, tied into the whole toolchain, and very few - not developers nor their managers - seem prepared for that sea-change (some Operations folks are probably a bit better off in terms of mindset and processes).

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