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Mission:

You, and everyone around you, depend on computers to support whatever lifestyle you choose to live. A vast array of systems, public and private, large and small, are a part of nearly every interaction you have. Inventors have created ever-more-complex ways for computer systems to enhance our world.

Structured communication, over the Internet, has been the foundation on which this brave new world has relied on. How remarkable it is, then, that a suite of protocols, largely dreamed up by academics, enforced by no governing body, with no profit motive to speak of has become this bedrock! These gentleman's agreements are as precious as any constitution.

How wonderful it is that such a foundation has been built for us! But we must maintain it! The forces of entropy are hard at work.

Of course, entropy is only half the battle. Newer and better uses are invented! We are ever more integrated with the marvelous services that seem to pop up daily. It is never, ever fast enough.

But what does it all mean?

Let's lose the abstractness for a bit. Ten years ago, web pages were cool. Sometimes they changed, but not that often. A few very smart people generated them dynamically, but, really, who has time for that. They went down, they came back up, and might have been very slow, but that was okay. Now, there is no such thing as a "web page" in the same vein as the 1990's and early 2000's. HTML pages are just one way to facilitate complex interactions between computer systems and their users. Server administrators never had it so hard.

The days of a read-only system are long dead. Everything must be interactive. Everything must be accessible on 6 different clients via an API. Your brand-new service has to talk to people via HTML, JSON, and a thousand other ways. Through all of this, it must be up, available, and internally consistent.




I delight it making it work, all of the time.