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Is this the apocalypse?

Woot woot! (Biased author here, sorry... can’t help it)

We will open source highlander eventually, but it’s not quite there yet. We use a VIP that the NUCs share... ie; one of the three will always have a VIP, and if it dies another NUC…

Have you worked with k8s yet? A lot of the things you bring up are addressed if k8s is used properly.

Iot device control, such as timers for food, and cameras tracking food (to name a few). These also output streams of data that is interesting to us, such that we want to exfiltrate…

You’re correct, training is centralized but the devices that use it to function are operated at the edge.

They’re really reasonable about it... you do what you need to do. That being said, it’s really REALLY nice to mute pagerduty for a whole day every week.

Credit card transactions, mobile orders, timer synchronization, order receiving (tablets etc), iot devices (cameras, cooking devices) and other things planned for the future.

Our tolerance requirements for synchronicity are broad enough that we can tolerate blips like this... at the end of the day we are automating away some simple human interactions (i…

We have frequent internet outages and still need to run compute loads at the edge.

It’s more about network outages than latency specifically... although in several remote locations latency is permanently low due to slow providers.

Could you define what is not deterministic about containerized computing? Examples of things we are controlling are timers for food, cameras that can recognize and track food items…

If you decide to play around with it, we use RKE to build and manage the k8s environments locally.

That is epic, and i am stealing that name.

My coworkers found this one quite amusing.

Well, it’s a 6 man team so most of our trade offs were for expedience, not the worlds greatest architecture. We cheated and sync’d data using a HA MongoDB setup amongst the cluster…

The primary challenge was just reasoning with the template and using Helm at scale... ie; what exactly did we deploy on those hundreds of varying clusters? Other issues included; t…

Ultimately “the edge” will just do it for him :-P

This is Caleb (SRE on this project). Here’s a similar NUC we use ... this one is like $300... just an example of what we use; https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1316113-REG/int…

Here's the abbreviated reason; Internet connectivity for restaurants stink. So we put our compute at the edge. Trust me... as an SRE I would much prefer we shove it in the cloud an…

I'd send that feedback through our feedback form... our product teams definitely need to hear that; https://www.chick-fil-a.com/Customer-Service/Contact

Thanks! We appreciate the compliment! :)

Interesting - why? (this is Caleb, one of the authors and lead SRE for the project)

We will have an order of magnitude more cloud datacenters than AWS! :)