Industrial software
The factory floor is not a staging environment
Set clear test boundaries, simulate failures, and review industrial software changes before live use.
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Software for
the factory floor.
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Production data, unreliable integrations, AI experiments, and the work of leading a technical team. A notebook for working through the details.
INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE / DEVELOPMENT / TEAM LEADERSHIP
INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE+SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT+LEADING TEAMS+AI & ML+THINKING OUT LOUD
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Boring software is a feature
Choose predictable defaults and make failure, recovery, and maintenance part of the design.
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Your best engineer should not be a single point of failure
Reduce knowledge bottlenecks with shared practice, usable runbooks, and clear decision ownership.
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An AI demo is not a production system
Define a bounded AI task, evaluate meaningful failures, and keep consequential actions under human review.
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The last mile between OT and IT
Make industrial data interfaces explicit about meaning, time, quality, ownership, and recovery.
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