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Debugging Humidity: Lessons from deploying software in the physical world


The first time I deployed code to an actual factory floor, I learned that "edge compute" doesn’t live in climate-controlled racks. It lives next to dust, grease, and forklifts. The idealized world of distributed systems I had studied-clean APIs, reliable networks, consistent power-was a comforting fiction. The reality was

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