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Notes on indexing equipment logs, and on the workflows that get built once the runs are queryable.
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Your Workflow Is The Spec
We build narrow on purpose, which only works if the narrowness matches what engineers actually do. When it doesn't, we would rather hear it than not.
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Everything Your Best Engineer Knows Is On Their Laptop
A service organization's diagnostic history sits on individual hard drives. That is not a filing problem — it is a business running on memory it does not own.
- service
- trust
A Plotting Tool Should Know What A Recipe Step Is
Feature count is the wrong axis to judge a tool on. The question is whether it knows your domain, or makes you re-encode it from scratch every session.
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Forty Minutes Before You Learn Anything
The work between a log landing on your desktop and the first useful plot is paid per file, repeated every session, and thrown away at the end of it.
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Step-Resolved Plotting
Plotting a run against the steps it actually ran beats plotting against wall-clock time.
- step
- trace
- run
Why Logs Are Not a Record
A folder of exported tool logs looks like a record of what happened. It isn't one until it's indexed.
- index
- run