Here’s to having all your tech dreams come true in 2013!

• May you seamlessly integrate with backend systems and data sources in a simple and consistent manner.
• May replication enable your databases to scale horizontally in a shared-nothing fashion to give you just the right amount of sharding.
• May your 15,000 RPM, RAID 10 disk arrays give way to SSDs or RAM-based storage.
• May your distributed, in-memory cache prevent users from always having to make expensive SQL queries.
• May your web servers scale to infinity in a stateless manner to provide websites and web services to millions.
• May your load-balancers send client requests to the web server with the lightest load without ever requiring sticky sessions.
• May your reverse-proxy securely publish your content out to the Internet.
• May your wire-protocol be lightweight, RESTful, and firewall-friendly.
• May your data be serialized as JSON and compressed to be as wireless-friendly as possible…even over GPRS.
• And may all your client endpoints be mobile with offline data storage to deal with intermittent connectivity..

Happy New Year everyone!

-Rob