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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by atwebb »

RandallBrown wrote: post #5
siruncledrew wrote: post #2

I don't know why, but for some reason the juxtaposition of traditional, brick-and-mortar brand images with tech blogs about building modern application technologies is amusing to me. It's seeing two completely different sides of the same organization. There's 0 condescending sentiment behind it, it's just like "wow, that was unexpected."

I worked for Nordstrom for several years and whenever I describe their technology department to another developer they're always pretty shocked. It was pretty shocking to me when I started there too.

Ha, y'all were an AWS/clickstream example at the Nashville Analytics Summit yesterday, granted it wasn't a new deck so maybe you've heard that before.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by ve55 »

sincerely wrote: post #22
scrumption wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

HN loves to talk about how CS needs ethics courses - this is a great example :|

If you're going to complain about the ethics related to Chik-Fil-A, it would probably be better to start with the fact that they raise and kill a billion chickens every year rather than that they have donated $120,000 to organizations like the Salvation Army (example from above article).

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by RandallBrown »

Aloha wrote: post #7
RandallBrown wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked for Nordstrom for several years and whenever I describe their technology department to another developer they're always pretty shocked. It was pretty shocking to me when I started there too.

I'm curious about Nordstrom, I know nothing of their infrastructure.

Their tech stack is similar to what you'd expect from any large tech company. I can't speak much to the server side of things (I worked on the iOS app) but I know they had everything ranging from older monolithic .NET apps to Node and Go micro services.

Their GitHub page (https://github.com/Nordstrom) doesn't have much in the way of internal projects, but it has lots of forks that will give you an idea of some of the tools they used.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by trhway »

timdorr wrote: post #3

If you want to see the actual hardware used at the restaurant, check out the previous blog post: https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at... Spoiler: It's a stack of Intel NUCs.

Interesting as it seemed that smarter edge/iot nodes would be like ARM/RaspPi, yet it seems it may get even as high as (or just straight to) Intel nuc.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by stickfigure »

unit91 wrote: post #21
psychometry wrote: post #18

When it comes to Chick-fil-A, there's also the regressive side in addition to the modern and traditional sides. https://hornet.com/stories/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations-...

Your comment is essentially "the owners hold certain values I disagree with regarding sexuality, therefore I'm surprised their technical team is any good." I don't see how that follows.

Political values are important to point out. Companies create these tech blogs as a recruitment vehicle. You should know if the company you're considering applying to is funding bigotry (or "wholesome family values" if that's your angle).

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by sincerely »

ve55 wrote: post #32
sincerely wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN loves to talk about how CS needs ethics courses - this is a great example :|

If you're going to complain about the ethics related to Chik-Fil-A, it would probably be better to start with the fact that they raise and kill a billion chickens every year rather than that they have donated $120,000 to organizations like the Salvation Army (example from above article).

Eh, regardless of my personal thoughts on the topic, the ethics of eating animals are a lot more controversial among the HN crowd than LGBTQ rights.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by walrus01 »

One thing I question is what kind of WAN link a single chicken fast food restaurant can get, or is economical. A lot are in places where the only last mile ISP options will be adsl2+ over copper or docsis cablemodem. I don't see it being a good use of money to spend $600/mo to pay some local ISP for a dedicated 100Mbps line on a 5 year contract.

But then again it's highly likely that what they do is not bandwidth intensive and will work fine on a 5Mbps x 1.25 Mbps DSL connection.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by scrumption »

stochastic_monk wrote: post #29
scrumption wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

This was not helpful. Sometimes people take jobs just to survive; I know I have.

Yeah, me too, but at least I wasn't writing Medium articles about how cool it was that I was generating revenue to be funneled directly into conversion therapy youth camps.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by behringer »

pluto9 wrote: post #28
scrumption wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here for this. Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.

The company themselves chose this political stance, not the community around them.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by walrus01 »

trhway wrote: post #34
timdorr wrote: post #3

If you want to see the actual hardware used at the restaurant, check out the previous blog post: https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at... Spoiler: It's a stack of Intel NUCs.

Interesting as it seemed that smarter edge/iot nodes would be like ARM/RaspPi, yet it seems it may get even as high as (or just straight to) Intel nuc.

Raspi cannot be used for a semi serious server application due to microsd card write wear issues. All other methods of attaching external storage by USB bus to an rpi are not reliable or suitable for this sort of purpose. Nowhere near the longevity of something with a native sata or m.2 SSD interface and a real SSD.
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