I used to prepare operations for the roll out of multi seat instances of SAP or ORACLE ERP systems. The last project I worked on was a merger of two gigantic UK civil service departments onto on instance of SAP R3 from multiple smaller instances of everything down to and including Excel sheet accounting. This was to run the UK's entire tax collecting infrastructure.

I've got to say, compared to the centralised team of 100's of consultants (including a team of Indian programmers we flew into the UK and housed in Kensignton because we couldn't find their skills in the UK and we weren't allowed to outsource) the upgrade of a decentralised system like Steem seems like complete magic. I have no idea how so many people are organised to work together in such an efficient manner.

So few people understand what it takes to keep a system up and running. I'm delighted with the way Steem works and when it fails, it fails publicly in ways we can understand and watch it get fixed. Not just a "glitch".

So thanks to those more technical than me who keep this kind of thing working.