So, here it is about 1:45AM MT and I am running on about 4 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. Mom is doing well, baby is doing well, kids are struggling a bit with the new world order, but all in all very well. Thanks to all of those that sent congratulations, way too many to count reached out and sent me a kind word. It means a tremendous amount to me.

I got to thinking about how much easier things are this time then they were the first time around. I think partly it is because I am older, but, partly it is because I understand the system. In the CS lexicon, there are inputs, outputs, some range of variable checking, and only a few simple interfaces for baby 3.0 (Licensed under CUDDLE by the way. This is a minor modification to CDDL, pronounced the same way). 

Partly this is written tongue-in-cheek, but partly quite seriously. Since I have familiarity with the standardized interfaces for infants, I don't have to relearn everything all over again. The system isn't proprietary (most babies enjoy the same inputs and outputs) and instead of spending my limited time trying to figure out what could possibly be wrong, I simply run through the available options (assuming the systems are happy path of course.) So, the last two days have been pretty easy so far. Of course as the systems gain complexity, there will be discoveries, but for now, a well fed, warm and a dry system seems to equate to relative peace and harmony.

If I wasn't so tired I could come up with a clever convention linking babies to Solaris, but, suffice it to say, Solaris by open sourcing, seeks to minimize the amount of effort required to consume standardized interfaces. As your systems get more complex, you may need help scaling to the enterprise space (don't we all?), but for now, Solaris is a good way to keep your data warm, dry and well fed. If you need to burp your systems, well, we can help with that too.