27
Jul
Multiples
There are dirty spoons everywhere…which is to say that the four spoons I own that are specifically for baking are all laying in a heap in my sink asking me to wash them. I don’t bake often, but the holidays are the only time of year I get to recall what it was like growing up in my parent’s bakery just outside Princeton, NJ. Whereas I’m baking two pies, around this time of year my mother and father would be churning out baking sheets for days, often scaling recipes to ten and twelve times their usual ingredient amount.
This had me thinking about scaling some of our standard fair of technical solutions. Nearly every household in America has figured out how to connect one cable box to one TV, but what happens when you have ten cable boxes and fifty TVs? Or when you’re not just amplifying one pair of speakers, but a stadium’s worth of speakers broken into over sixty zones of control. The logic that dictates scaling a recipe no longer applies; you can’t just multiply.
You have to start thinking outside the box to be sure your infrastructure can handle the size of what you’re building. We see it all the time; a client’s technical provider takes the method that worked so well for a room’s worth of technology and tries to scale it to a building’s worth, and often reliability and ease of use go out the window. Before you end up with a sink full of spoons, be sure you are baking with the right recipe.
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