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It's not like the developer is a plumber, where the company gets paid per toilet they can replace in a year. The IP that the developer developed is an asset tha
by InitialLastName 3y ago
It's not like the developer is a plumber, where the company gets paid per toilet they can replace in a year. The IP that the developer developed is an asset that will keep earning a return in ensuing years; in every other field of business, yearly depreciation is how you account for the cost of your assets.
- hasty_pudding 3y agoNot all but a good chunk of my career has been digital plumbing whether I'm in a developer or an ops role. And then theres engineers devoted to maintenance of the systems full-time. Do ops/infra people fall under this?
- tjconsult 3y agoNo, DevOps/SRE salaries are considered COGS (cost of goods and services) so they’re accounted for the same as a cloud hosting bill–i.e. _not_ a capital investment