DevOps engineer moving to physical CCTV biz – how to manage the mess? Posted by jongi_ct on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:31PM from the soltra.africa dept. https://soltra.africa ( 1 comment | on HN )
I’ve been bleeding money on a school project due to:
Voltage drop/PoE limits over 100m.
Bad labor: No "git revert" for a hole drilled in the wrong place.
Workmanship: My "clean code" mindset is failing in the "meatspace" of messy cabling.
To those who moved from software to physical infrastructure:
How do you enforce "clean" workmanship with manual labor?
What are your must-have tools for the physical layer?
How do you stop "scope creep" when you're 10 meters up a ladder?