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.
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.