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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by behringer »

unit91 wrote: post #74
monocasa wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All discussions are political. The only question is whether or not the politics at hand affect you. And to quote Chick-fil-a's CEO: "Jesus had a lot of things to say about people who work and live in the business community … Our work should be an act of worship. Our work should be our mission field." So he sees everything they do as political as well.

Not political. Religious. For those of us who are Christians, our politics are driven by our religion, not the other way around. The Heidelberg Catechism sums it up well: > Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? > A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

There's nothing Christian about the board at Chick-Fil-A

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Post by dbrueck »

stochastic_monk wrote: post #239
swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #181

Unrelated but I've done a good amount of nonprofit work and everytime I've had to ask for food donations chickfila has given food free of charge.

I see people like this the way I see my Mormon family. They usually try to be very kind and I value that. At the same time, they harbor beliefs which are incredibly damaging to both me and those I love, so I keep a healthy distance while understanding that they mean well. Don’t mistake their kind acts for open-mindedness or acceptance, though.

Out of curiosity, in what way is Chick-fil-a not open-minded?

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by behringer »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #77
scrumption wrote: post #38

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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.

This person[0] seems to have found a way of engaging the CEO in dialog. I, personally, think this is the best way of discussing differences. [0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/dan-cathy-c...

We also have an open dialog with Kim Jong-un; doesn't mean we should applaud the people that work and support him or feel sorry for those workers. They're traitors to the human race, in just the same way that Chick-Fil-A workers are directly responsible for what the company does.

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Post by danielodio »

jacques_chester wrote: post #257
coffeesn0b wrote: post #130

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Hey! Caleb here... I'm the lead SRE building the clusters on the restaurants. Each individual restaurant gets it's own cluster (we aren't fully deployed yet). There are too many network latency challenges and too much immaturity around federated clusters to take the route (unfortunately). We currently use gitops, which houses all the configs per cluster in a single repo per restaurant (CRAZY amount of corgis!)... we…

Wouldn't Spinnaker be suitable for something like this?

Caleb, we’re Armory, W17. This does indeed sound like an interesting use case for Spinnaker, as Jacques said. Happy to chat with you about it. DROdio@Armory.io (we are commercializing Spinnaker — http://www.Armory.io )

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Post by bbernoulli »

beckler wrote: post #272
max_im wrote: post #85

I work in midtown NYC near a Chick-fil-a location. Used to be a line down the block, went with a friend yesterday thinking we caught the line at a short time but turns out they were using smiley employees with ipads coordinating orders and that they were serving arguably more people than before. Very impressed with how seamlessly they've integrated tech in their brick and mortars in contrast with the countless "cashl…

I have a friend who used to be a shift manager at Chick-fil-A. I can't remember exactly what he called that process... It was like meet and greet or walk and talk, but it's surprisingly efficient for the drive thru. He said it cuts down the average wait time for customers around 15% at his location. I don't know what it would be like at NYC since it's not a drive thru.

It's called "Face to face"

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Post by hogu »

dbrueck wrote: post #312
stochastic_monk wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see people like this the way I see my Mormon family. They usually try to be very kind and I value that. At the same time, they harbor beliefs which are incredibly damaging to both me and those I love, so I keep a healthy distance while understanding that they mean well. Don’t mistake their kind acts for open-mindedness or acceptance, though.

Out of curiosity, in what way is Chick-fil-a not open-minded?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/03/19/chick-f...

Anti gay marriage

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by [deleted] »

paulie_a wrote: post #292
max_im wrote: post #85

I work in midtown NYC near a Chick-fil-a location. Used to be a line down the block, went with a friend yesterday thinking we caught the line at a short time but turns out they were using smiley employees with ipads coordinating orders and that they were serving arguably more people than before. Very impressed with how seamlessly they've integrated tech in their brick and mortars in contrast with the countless "cashl…

That is strange to have a cashless restaurant. If anything cash is preferred. I know of a few places that only accept cash. And in the last week my debit card chip has been malfunctioning so I have to pay cash for everything until my new one arrives. I even attempted to use nfc today. That is a shit technology and was a waste of time. The POS terminals simply don't work.

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Post by toomanybeersies »

reaperducer wrote: post #129
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.

Spoiler: It's a stack of Intel NUCs. Funny how the world has changed. I got my first taste of real computing from a guy in the next town who would buy dead PDP's from local McDonald's restaurants, fix them up, and sell them on. He always said the hardest part wasn't replacing broken parts, it was that invariably the machines would always have soda spilled in them, no matter where they were stored. Cleaning the inside…

I spilled beer all over my laptop keyboard once, so I stripped it down and cleaned down the whole thing with isopropyl alcohol. It was a really annoying task, I can't imagine how annoying it would be with soda in a PDP.

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Post by TickleSteve »

coffeesn0b wrote: post #259
TickleSteve wrote: post #211

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The point about real-time systems is not the your tolerance of 'blips' its about analysis of your worst-case timing requirements. This is what real-time control systems are all about. Sure, you may be able to tolerate a 1 second 'blip'... how about ten seconds? a minute? do you know for sure how long Linux may put your process on hold for? Linux provides no guarantees at all. It seems to me that what you are really c…

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

K8s has nothing to say about schedulability or real-time performance, its just not what it does. K8s is simply a way to coordinate containers, nothing to do with scheduling processes on this level.

Something like RTLinux however, would. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux)

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