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by oblio
2908 days ago
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> not to mention that building bootable images with your software on is not a very modern practice. 1. Why not? 2. Who cares if it's not modern if it does the job? And they wouldn't even need to make a special app, they could just make it a webapp ergo make a 1-time image with a browser... |
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It's becoming more common to distribute applications with orchestration software like Kubernetes. The technology around PXE booting is quite old, and mired in enterprise cruft.
> 2. Who cares if it's not modern if it does the job?
Developers love new tech, especially if they can get a Medium post out of it. This doesn't make it a good reason of course, but if this is the tech that more developers are familiar with, that's a good reason.
I personally wouldn't want to learn how to boot 6000 remote machines off built disk images over the internet, I'd rather use the skills I already have around Ansible or learn Kubernetes.
> And they wouldn't even need to make a special app, they could just make it a webapp ergo make a 1-time image with a browser...
I've never been to a Chick-fil-a, but if the setups are anything like my local McDonalds, that's a complex 5 screen setup showing a fluid mix of static images, videos, animations, and applications, not to mention that other stores have different setups/layouts/display types/etc - I don't think you'd be able to _reliably_ do this in a browser. My guess is that it's a multi-screen aware wrapper around video components and web views. That will need re-deploying regularly I would imagine. And that's not to mention the kitchen ordering system, the self-service machines, the tills, etc.
On-site machines totally make sense, smart applications deployed locally, frequently, make sense.