Automation: Flow Control & Dimensionality
Human beings as we are, struggle sometimes to think multi-dimensionally about tasks. Our brains seem to have a conscious layer and a sub-conscious layer. Whether you think in words, noise or images, your brain is a single threaded engine with a silent co-processor that can either assist or annoy. Experience has shown that we look at network automation challenges through this shaped lens and try and solve things that makes sense to humans, but not necessarily for mechanized processes.
In an attempt not to lose my own thread, I’ll try and explain some different view points through examples.
Example One: I’m English, Make me some Tea!
Making a a cup of tea is a very English thing to do and the process of making one will suffice for this example.
Let’s look at the process involved:
// { type: activity}
(Start)-><a>[kettle empty]->(Fill Kettle)->|b|
<a>-(note: Kettle activities)
<a>[kettle full]->|b|->(Boil Kettle)->|c|
|b|->(Add Tea Bag)-><d>[Sugar: yes]->(Add Sugar)->(Add Milk)
<d>[Sugar: no]->(Add Milk)
<d>-(note: Sweet tooth?)
(Add Milk)->|c|->(Pour Boiled Water)
(Pour Boiled Water)->(Enjoy)->(Stop)
Fig.1
This makes us a relative standard cup of English breakfast tea.
Let’s assume macros exist for milk and sugar quantity and the dealing of a mug or best china Continue reading
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