Good. We don't have to worry about node.js, apache whatsit and Google go-away v1.0 being our goto technologies in a critical space. That's progress. Stick a rest/rpc interface on the outputs and ctl and attach a wireless dongle to a middlebox: voila modernized! If you really want to get fancy attach ELK to the 'stack' and put what data you want in it to represent something or another. Mission accomplished!