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That honestly sounds like the way to go, and I'll probably look into it when I have more time. I'm more a software person than a sysadmin and I'm not wildly confident that I won't accidentally close us down for a few days without a lot of prep. 😆

Inventory is through our POS/processor and production records are through Beer30 (though I have plans to write my own and open source it when I have time; we just opened and we're all still running pretty hard doing new-open stuff). We're also technically a nano-brewery, so anything we're doing is a little bespoke (i.e., I think it's a very situational setup) right now.

The biggest thing from a brewery-specific side that we're doing is controlling the brewhouse. We're running an all-electric system, and all the heating and cellar controls expose UIs over the LAN. In addition to being generally nifty, we're using Unifi to separate brewery-specific stuff onto its own network and the built-in VPN hosting (I opted for the OpenVPN option) to expose that network security. This allows our brewer to do stuff like check the temperature from home or set the boil kettle to start running before he leaves the house. (The useful thing about the UDM (primary server) running Alpine is that I have a task that essentially functions as dynamic DNS and updates an A record with our domain provider so he can always log in at a known hostname).

It also integrates with cameras, phone, and menu boards, which are all useful for the FoH side of things.

All-in-all, we're not doing that much with it yet, but it's pretty nice to use so far, and being a software engineer, I'm excited for the possibilities of useful stuff I can host on it.

I've been using Ubiquiti/Unifi for my brewery setup (cameras, several private networks, phone tree stuff). It comes with some pretty solid management software accessible through the local network, but under the hood, everything's just running Alpine. There's a bit of a learning curve if you keep the management software installed (firmware updates wipe out the crontab, for example), but you can customize it pretty aggressively if you know your way around a terminal.

Looks like early last year. News to me, too

https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-npm-acquisition/

Because I was exhausted, I did a dumb and forgot to say the actual name of the place. We're Zymos Brewing in Littleton. Thanks to Spiralvortexisalie for being a sleuth and getting to it before me!

Ohai!

I think I accidentally pulled a kind of corollary to Cunningham's law: the best way to get engagement is to post with not quite enough information. 😆 But, yeah, that's us!

Pretty much every job. I think the paradigms in most modern languages are similar enough that the actual language doesn't matter as much as how you think about structuring code.

Surprisingly, yes to both of these. I was just commenting on how long my Dyson vacuum has lasted a couple days ago.

Woomy's a hell of a drug.

More a comment than an answer, but an old coworker and I used to take walks and discuss how ML could be applied to managing an economy. We called ourselves the Open Source Socialists.