The Invisible Screws of IT

 A teacher once gave her students a test with just one question a drawing of a chair and a simple ask:

“What’s the most important part of this chair?”
Everyone answered: the legs, the seat, the backrest.
The teacher smiled and said: “You’re all wrong. It’s the screws, the parts you don’t see. Without them, the chair collapses.”
That lesson holds true in Information Technology too.
In our world, the “screws” are often invisible, the silent contributors that hold entire systems together:
o The QA engineer ensuring stability before release
o The DevOps pipelines quietly deploying your code at 2 AM
o The sysadmins maintaining uptime
o The documentation nobody notices until it’s missing
o The test cases, backups, or monitoring scripts that prevent disasters
These aren’t flashy roles or features, but without them, the entire “chair” of IT collapses.
So today, take a moment to appreciate your invisible screws, the people, the processes, and the quiet acts of diligence that keep everything running.
Because in tech, as in life, it’s the unseen support that keeps us standing strong.

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