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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by imglorp on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:35AM (#24868770)
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...

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by curryst on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:19AM (#24870383)
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.

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by imglorp on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:02PM (#24871541)
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.

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