The Jeff Bezos Rule That's About to Break the Internet

This is one of the many areas where we have a crossroads coming and we have no legislation. But Jeff Bezos had this famous walk around that he did where he came back once and he said, hey, everybody at Amazon, all you engineers, you have to put an XML human-visible interface on everything you do. And all the systems talking to each other need to be visible to me. No backdoors, no direct database access. And everyone freaked out because they said, that's going to be so slow and so clumsy. And he said, do it anyway, because me understanding what's going on in this company is more important than your bandwidth between your backend systems.