From Rethinking work:-

To start with, I don’t think most people recognize themselves in Adam Smith’s description of wage-driven idlers. Of course, we care about our wages, and we wouldn’t work without them. But we care about more than money. We want work that is challenging and engaging, that enables us to exercise some discretion and control over what we do, and that provides us opportunities to learn and grow. We want to work with colleagues we respect and with supervisors who respect us. Most of all, we want work that is meaningful — that makes a difference to other people and thus ennobles us in at least some small way.

From Securing your HTTP API with JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption:-

JWT

Basically, the token (JWT) is the simplest structure that you will deal with while implementing JOSE in our architecture; it is a string representation of some data base64 encoded (other types of encoding might be applied, but this is not madatory): the JWT differs from raw base64-encoded data since it also includes informations about the encoding itself, in the token’s header; by concatenating the base64-encoded version of the token header and payload (the actual data) you obtain what the specification calls signature input, which will then be used to create the signature (JWS).

JWS and JWE

After the JWT comes the JWS, which is a signed representation of the JWT; it differs from the token just because of the signature; on an higher step of the ladder comes the JWE instead, which lets you encrypt the data in order to achieve an higher security level: the examples in the ietf draft show you how to create JWEs with a pair of private / public keys.

From biztalk360:-

Out of the 2 important tricks we applied, one of the trick is agreeing on the standard date and time format string between the client and REST API. It’s a simple no brainer decision to use the ISO-8601 format, it’s pretty much THE internet standard when it comes to handling date and time in web focused applications.

From Where are the self-tuning systems?

In 2015, self-tuning systems mostly don’t exist. Every single piece of software still relies on magic numbers found empirically or pulled out of thin air, by developers or by users, possibly manually adjusted later in order to get closer to an acceptable security/ reliability/ performance balance.