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“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-sit
by themark 2y ago
“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“
What fresh hell is this?
- reaperducer 2y agoIt doesn't sound fresh at all. It sounds like McDonald's going back to the way it used to operate. I knew a guy who used to repair the PDP-11's under the counters that ran each restaurant. He said the #1 failure mode was soda spilled in the machines.
- sgerenser 2y agoI have a very hard time believing every McDonalds once had their own PDP-11. Despite being called “minicomputers” those things were huge!