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First time I recorded a demo was when it became too hard to return things to a known good state after every demo. In this case that meant multiple RAID arrays, 3 servers, an application with DB, and monitoring software.

All so that I could demonstrate that when I turned off a RAID controller a red light came on and the application just…continued.

So much work for something largely unspectacular meant that a recorded demo that could be run anytime from a laptop was far more appealing. My junior colleagues were now doing demos they otherwise wouldn’t, and the seniors turned off the sound and edited the video into snippets they could introduce and talk around