What does that server serve is something I wish people kept better track of. Ops people are used to focusing on whatever "big iron" their companies consider as the server for the services they sell, but then people forget "client-server" as a model: There are name servers, web servers, mail servers (SMTPd and POPd and IMAPd), file servers and display servers, etc.
Please people, don't lose sight of this: one box can run all these servers, and if you actually want to be full stack, your box should run all of them. Sure, at scale you need a NOC and multiple web servers pretending to be one web server, etc, but if we lose "server ubiquity" it makes the problem of walled garden solutions so much worse.
at its heart, this is a problem of protocols. Protocols need to be open, creating a space where both clients and servers can flourish. Keeping servers in the raised floor server room is Larry Ellison and Bill Gates dream, but it's our nightmare. With open protocols, it doesn't matter if a particular server is open or closed source, because you will always have a choice. This is the philosophy that created the explosion of the internet. Don't let it die.
What does that server serve is something I wish people kept better track of. Ops people are used to focusing on whatever "big iron" their companies consider as the server for the services they sell, but then people forget "client-server" as a model: There are name servers, web servers, mail servers (SMTPd and POPd and IMAPd), file servers and display servers, etc.
Please people, don't lose sight of this: one box can run all these servers, and if you actually want to be full stack, your box should run all of them. Sure, at scale you need a NOC and multiple web servers pretending to be one web server, etc, but if we lose "server ubiquity" it makes the problem of walled garden solutions so much worse.
at its heart, this is a problem of protocols. Protocols need to be open, creating a space where both clients and servers can flourish. Keeping servers in the raised floor server room is Larry Ellison and Bill Gates dream, but it's our nightmare. With open protocols, it doesn't matter if a particular server is open or closed source, because you will always have a choice. This is the philosophy that created the explosion of the internet. Don't let it die.