I had a feature request come down the pipeline that said, "We need this computer to send a notification out to other nodes on the network in the event it loses power."
I thought it was just a poorly worded health polling feature. I was wrong. They literally wanted a dead computer to send out a message.
It took me asking them to send me a text message after turning off their phones before they realized the issue.
That was an extremely good way to pose your analogy. It's important, as a technical worker, to realize that things that are obvious to you aren't as obvious to everyone else.
I probably don’t know the full context. A cheap uninterruptible power supply (UPS) costs like $50 to $100 and does exactly what they asked for, doesn’t it?
I had a feature request come down the pipeline that said, "We need this computer to send a notification out to other nodes on the network in the event it loses power."
I thought it was just a poorly worded health polling feature. I was wrong. They literally wanted a dead computer to send out a message.
It took me asking them to send me a text message after turning off their phones before they realized the issue.
That was an extremely good way to pose your analogy. It's important, as a technical worker, to realize that things that are obvious to you aren't as obvious to everyone else.
I probably don’t know the full context. A cheap uninterruptible power supply (UPS) costs like $50 to $100 and does exactly what they asked for, doesn’t it?
Oh my sweety, the client has refused to buy a UPS or make any change whatsoever to make the solution viable, because they are dicks.
I'm considering an entire career change so I don't have to deal with shit like this anymore.
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MQTT has a last-will-and-testament feature.
This calls for a warrant canary on a remote server.