Thursday, January 17, 2013

Machines never have any extra parts


I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too.



The above quote is from the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. We at PatchSchools also take this philosophy of minimalism and usefulness to heart. For instance, our complete infrastructure runs on Amazon AWS. Just like our development model, our infrastructure also works only when we need it to work. Other times, it just shuts itself down. Our scripts and configurations actively identify unused infrastructure and terminates them.



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