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Is this the apocalypse?

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

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 them up to the cloud.

I’m not a fan of hype... k8s is one of the few hyped technologies that has delivered on its promises.

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 (ie; fry the fries or track the food), we aren’t performing surgery with these systems.

So far we’ve been satisfied with Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 to be exact) and it’s overall capabilities.

Also, don’t forget that cost at scale is a big factor... doing things perfectly but expensively is not profitable at 2k locations.

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, drying machines that will automatically trigger and fry fries.

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.