Having been in IT for over 40 years, this is my take on "how does he do it?" and "do we care that it's only Mark?"...
- Mark does not have to go to a half dozen meetings everyday to tell other people what he's doing and hear others bitch about what they are doing.
- Mark obviously has a well defined (well greased) development environment where it's easy to focus on a specific functional area, modify/test changes, and push those changes out to the running site.? (I'd love to look over his shoulder for a while...)
- Mark obviously has a lot of experience with deploying and maintaining a set of servers that work together to make groups.io work.
- Mark takes pride in "his baby" and is committed to having it work "right".
- Mark commented somewhere that the site was paying for itself.
So do we care?
- Well, yes and no.? If something were to happen to Mark, the site would continue as is, at least for a while.
- If I'm losing sleep worrying about the longevity of groups.io, I'd want to know what the business continuity plan is if Mark is incapacitated.
- As we've seen with Yahoo and other group sites, a group needs its own contingency plan too.
Anyway, I'm not losing any sleep and I have backups of key info from my groups.? But I am curious what Mark's continuity plan is.
Toby
Toby Kraft