In my day job I do data pipeline development and operations. That involves a bunch of AWS services and some custom wrappers we developed in-house. I spend a lot of time clicking around in web interfaces.
Recently I have fantasized about what it would be like to operate my environment with something like the ACE control room.
Need to set a flag on some Spark option? That’s literally a switch. Is something on fire? Look for a flashing red light. Need to send the output of a task to some other process? That’s a knob.
I think about this both in terms of literally making a control panel/room or a web interface equivalent.
A control room seems like something that needs a lot of forethought and deep understanding. How would that requirement along with the difficulty of pushing changes influence the design of a web interface?
Recently Ken obtained and shared some of the Roto-Tellite switches from mission control. Is that the 1960’s version of jQuery?
Recently I have fantasized about what it would be like to operate my environment with something like the ACE control room.
Need to set a flag on some Spark option? That’s literally a switch. Is something on fire? Look for a flashing red light. Need to send the output of a task to some other process? That’s a knob.
I think about this both in terms of literally making a control panel/room or a web interface equivalent.
A control room seems like something that needs a lot of forethought and deep understanding. How would that requirement along with the difficulty of pushing changes influence the design of a web interface?
Recently Ken obtained and shared some of the Roto-Tellite switches from mission control. Is that the 1960’s version of jQuery?