As a company we spend much of our time building marketing materials, messaging materials, demo's, presentations etc.... Anyone who is apart of a small organization can appreciate the amount of time and effort that goes into every little aspect of building your story.  Much time is spent researching, reading, understanding the markets, future directions.  The rare time you stumble upon a piece of gold, but gold you can share.

"We have long believed that 80% of operations issues originate in design and development..."  Developers may not believe it, but here is 20 years of experience that explains why.

Below you will find the most comprehensive explanation of what it takes to design and deploy services. 

 http://research.microsoft.com/~JamesRH/TalksAndPapers/JamesRH_Lisa.pdf

Some key observations

• designing for automation and provisioning
• dependency management
• release cycle and testing
• hardware selection and standardization
• operations and capacity planning
• auditing
• monitoring and alerting
• graceful degradation and admission control
• customer and press communications plan
• customer self provisioning and self help

Conclusion --> "Reducing operations costs and improving service reliability for a high scale Internet service starts with writing the service to be operations-friendly."

That sentence probably best describes what we try to achieve with Aware Server.... what's good for the developer, is good for operations.

Check it out at http://www.gridgistics.net/main_learn.aspx