S3 as an Eternal Service - Last Week in AWS Blog
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service
What Jamie wrote
It is interesting to consider that we are getting to the point where certain technology capabilities are, in a good way, ossified.
I sometimes think about the fact that Amazon S3 effectively has to exist until the heat death of the universe. Many millennia from now, our highly-evolved descendants will probably be making use of an equally highly evolved descendant of S3. It is fun to think about how this would be portrayed in science fiction form, where developers pore through change logs and design documents that predate their great-great-great-great grandparents, and users inherit ancient (yet still useful) S3 buckets, curate the content with great care, and then ensure that their progeny will be equally good stewards for all of the precious data stored within.
I think about this type of capability online more than the average person I suspect. One of the projects I intend to pursue is to somehow position my blog to last for as close to forever as I can. It is a much harder problem than it seems. The crypto stack in Ethereum with IPFS is currently the most promising bet to making it happen.
But it is also interesting to note when stopping change is a good thing. I recently shared in another venue that software with no change, with no backlog, is the same as dead software. But maybe there is another angle too. Software that is sufficiently ossified that it is no longer in need of further change?