Musings on IT and programming

 Sometimes you create a system that faces directly the end user and produces value on each interaction, sometimes it is something that is deeply buried in the back end but still has direct business value by performing actions directly involved with the value chain, other times it is a support mechanism that helps monitor either the business or the infrastructure and other times it is something that is so low level that it does not have a direct business impact but if it were to fail it would bring the business to it's knees. All of these systems have their own characteristics and way of life, what works on one of them might completely break another one. Also talking about some of those can be made almost naturally with somebody outside of the organization as is evident what they do; on the other hand others can only be understood by individuals that have in depth knowledge of the field where those systems are meant to live. It is very hard to draw the line where one type of system