A few words of appreciation for the new lottery based WWDC ticket sales. Get your name in the hat by Monday morning.

Then I talk through some of the tradeoffs involved in choosing the level of abstraction to use for your web-service backends, explaining my own tendency to go pretty low level. Starting from these few posts:

• The Parts of Your Platform
• Web Hosting For App Developers
• On Running Your Own Servers, and Why We’re Not