{"id":39,"date":"2008-10-29T06:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-10-29T06:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:57:43","slug":"its-the-system-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the system, stupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my software job we spend lots of time worrying about the system, the entire combination of hardware, software, processes, people, and everything that works together to make a successful deployment of a software product.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happens in the farming world when you (or your vendor) don&#8217;t take a systems approach to setting up a corn drying system and instead just look at each piece on its own.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/images\/corn_spill_002.jpg\" alt=\"Corn spill\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIn this case the auger that was taking the corn away from the dryer hadn&#8217;t been checked to see if its speed (determined by the pulleys in the silver frame on the auger.\u00a0 If you look closely you&#8217;ll notice the belts are gone, burned up trying to keep up) was fast enough to keep up with the dryer.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of time figuring pulley ratios, 3 trips to town for parts and belts, 2 man-hours of shoveling corn off the ground and we were back in business and dried corn without incident the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my software job we spend lots of time worrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}