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[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 325 points 1 year ago

I haven't read the article because documentation is overhead but I'm guessing the real reason is because the guy who kept saying they needed to add more storage was repeatedly told to calm down and stop overreacting.

[-] krellor@kbin.social 168 points 1 year ago

I used to do some freelance work years ago and I had a number of customers who operated assembly lines. I specialized in emergency database restoration, and the assembly line folks were my favorite customers. They know how much it costs them for every hour of downtime, and never balked at my rates and minimums.

The majority of the time the outages were due to failure to follow basic maintenance, and log files eating up storage space was a common culprit.

So yes, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the problem was something called out by the local IT, but were overruled for one reason or another.

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 1 year ago

and log files eating up storage space was a common culprit.

Another classic symptom of poorly maintained software. Constant announcements of trivial nonsense, like [INFO]: Sum(1, 1) - got result 2! filling up disks.

I don't know if the systems you're talking about are like this, but it wouldn't surprise me!

[-] DukeMcAwesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago

You gotta forward that to Spunk so your logs ain't filling up the server generating them. Plus you can set up automated alerts for when the result stops being 2.

This message brought to you by Big Splunk.

[-] wolo 27 points 1 year ago

I think you missed a letter...

[-] Blooper@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I always make sure my logs are covered by Spunk.

[-] PhatInferno@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

spunking my logs is one of my favorite pass times

[-] Dope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Big Splunk~~ Missed letter? You mean Big Spunk, right?

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

And yet that’s probably there because sometime, somewhere, it returned 1.9 or 2.00001 or some such nonsense.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

1 + 1 = 2.000001 for sufficiently large (but not by much) values of 1.

[-] Pat12@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

this is software speciifcally for assembly line management?

[-] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

There is specific software for everything

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah a few levels.

Level 1: complex stand alone devices, mostly firmware.

Level 1a. Stuff slightly more complicated than a list of settings, usually for something like a VFD or a stepper motor controllers. Not as common.

Level 2 PLCs, HMIs, and the black magic robotic stuff. Stand alone equipment. Like imagine a machine that can take something, heat it up, and give it to the next machine.

Level 3: DCS and SCADA. Data control center and whatever SCADA stands for, I always forget. This is typically for integrating or at least data collection of multiple stand alone equipment for level 2.

Level 4: the integration layer between Level 3 and whatever means the company has for entering in sales.

Like everything in software this is all general. Some places will mix layers, subtract layers, add them. I would complain about the inconsistent nature of it all but without it I would be unemployed.

[-] Pat12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Level 1a. Stuff slightly more complicated than a list of settings, usually for something like a VFD or a stepper motor controllers. Not as common.

Level 2 PLCs, HMIs, and the black magic robotic stuff. Stand alone equipment. Like imagine a machine that can take something, heat it up, and give it to the next machine.

Level 3: DCS and SCADA. Data control center and whatever SCADA stands for, I always forget. This is typically for integrating or at least data collection of multiple stand alone equipment for level 2.

Level 4: the integration layer between Level 3 and whatever means the company has for entering in sales.

Like everything in software this is all general. Some places will mix layers, subtract layers, add them. I would complain about the inconsistent nature of it all but without it I would be unemployed

Is this specific software engineering languages? or is this electrical engineering or what kind of work is this?

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Ballast!

Just plonk a large file in the storage, make it relative to however much is normally used in the span of a work week or so. Then when shit hits the fan, delete the ballast and you'll suddenly have bought a week to "find" and implement a solution. You'll be hailed as a hero, rather than be the annoying doomer that just bothers people about technical stuff that's irrelevant to the here and now.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

Or you could be fired because technically you're the one that caused the outage.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Damned if you do, damned if you don't!

[-] Awkwardparticle@artemis.camp 7 points 1 year ago

The ultimate goal is having no downtime. Ballast gives you that result. The cost of downtime far larger than wasting extra space for ballast.

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Except then they'll decide you fixed it, so nothing more needs to be done. I've seen this happen more than once.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And was fired for not doing his job which management prevented him from doing in the first place

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