https://trackchanges.postlight.com/the-secret-engines-of-the-internet-e517592266ea

We build platforms at Postlight. It’s a recurring theme of our conversations, both here on Track Changes and in our podcast. We’re passionate about building the things that power other things.

And we’re not the only ones! Most of the software you use every day lives within an integrated panoply of platforms and services, all working together to deliver your shopping carts and DMs and cat photos and Vines (RIP). The stuff we call “websites” and “apps” is actually a complicated, creaky mass full of unsung, sturdy chunks of code working in conjunction with other unsung, sturdy chunks of code. Take one piece out, and a bunch of other pieces break. They’re indispensable, even if you don’t know they’re there.