Editorial Board Thoughts: Information Technology and Libraries: Anxiety and Exhilaration

6 A few weeks ago a valued colleague left our library to move his young family back home to Pittsburgh. Insofar as we were a two-­‐man department, I spent the weeks following the announcement of his imminent departure picking his brain about various projects, their codebases, potential rough spots, existing trouble tickets, etc. He left, and I immediately inherited nine-­‐years-­‐worth of projects and custom code including all the "micro-­‐services" that feed into our various well-­‐designed, high-­‐profile, and high-­‐performing (thanks to him) Websites.