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Good info, thank you! There was an old effort a long time ago where the machines were on a powerline-networking system (LONWorks) but that is dead and buried.

Good info, thank you! There was an old effort a long time ago where the machines were on a powerline-networking system (LONWorks) but that is dead and buried. The next-gen effort was ramping up a few years ago and I don't really know where it is now. The predictive analytics company they bought was a big part of it.

chapium 6y ago
Not sure if this is the same thing, but I recall reading a case study in 2006 on McD's cloudifying their kitchen equipment. The project was apparently a huge failure and was eventually stopped due to runaway costs.
- joezydeco 6y ago
  Do you have a link to that anywhere? The 2006 timeframe does fit with the LONWorks effort. The McD implementation used....powerline networking. Man was that a kludge.
  - chapium 6y ago
    I don't sorry, but it was probably a HBR case study.
imglorp 6y ago
Meanwhile, Chick-fil-a is running Kubernetes at the edge for equipment, POS telemetry, and ML. https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541 https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...
- curryst 6y ago
  Their tech stack is far more bleeding edge than I would have envisioned. I wish they gave an idea of why they chose to use k8s at the edge. I can see how containers are useful for deployment, and the fail-over built into Kubernetes is really nice, but I'm shocked that's the simplest/best way to do it at the edge. I would have expected some VMWare product, just because it's "enterprisey". Shame on me for judging.
  - imglorp 6y ago
    Deployments and monitoring are probably another draw. Same tools server and edge side. Another project to keep an eye on is AWS's Greengrass which has a bunch of capability overlap, but a bunch of new ideas for edge and fog IoT also. I had a mixed experience with it but at least some ideas bear borrowing.

chapium 6y ago

Not sure if this is the same thing, but I recall reading a case study in 2006 on McD's cloudifying their kitchen equipment. The project was apparently a huge failure and was eventually stopped due to runaway costs.

joezydeco 6y ago
Do you have a link to that anywhere? The 2006 timeframe does fit with the LONWorks effort. The McD implementation used....powerline networking. Man was that a kludge.
- chapium 6y ago
  I don't sorry, but it was probably a HBR case study.

imglorp 6y ago

Meanwhile, Chick-fil-a is running Kubernetes at the edge for equipment, POS telemetry, and ML. https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541 https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...

curryst 6y ago
Their tech stack is far more bleeding edge than I would have envisioned. I wish they gave an idea of why they chose to use k8s at the edge. I can see how containers are useful for deployment, and the fail-over built into Kubernetes is really nice, but I'm shocked that's the simplest/best way to do it at the edge. I would have expected some VMWare product, just because it's "enterprisey". Shame on me for judging.
- imglorp 6y ago
  Deployments and monitoring are probably another draw. Same tools server and edge side. Another project to keep an eye on is AWS's Greengrass which has a bunch of capability overlap, but a bunch of new ideas for edge and fog IoT also. I had a mixed experience with it but at least some ideas bear borrowing.