prettybunnys

Declarative structured data is super important it turns out

Lots of stuff uses XML still.

political reasons?

Tolkien didn’t write the hobbit till he was 45, so you still have time to write the hobbit

Also a proprietary license server that has to run on a machine image they provide OR they manage, in your prem.

It’s more than just power state, you can also toggle based on the state of other units (which you could chain normally too, but not time based) so you could start a service 10 minutes after another service has ran to completion, or after it’s died, etc.

Some stuff is designed for windows and we have to support it.

Other shops are windows shops

Many made up to sound like names they came up with.