#179: Avoiding the Stampede.

A few words of appreciation for the new lottery based WWDC ticket sales. Get your name in the hat by Monday morning.

Then I talk through some of the tradeoffs involved in choosing the level of abstraction to use for your web-service backends, explaining my own tendency to go pretty low level. Starting from these few posts:

The Parts of Your Platform
Web Hosting For App Developers
On Running Your Own Servers, and Why We’re Not