Lightning Talk: Naming is Hard - A Field Study
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Company inspects oil and gas pipelines and stores up to terabyte per inspection of sensor data to locate defects called features; processing uses a custom pipes and filters pipeline that reads chunks, runs filters in parallel and is gated by the slowest filter. To reduce naming confusion real-world pipelines are called chain in code, but overlaps with pipe operator, compiler/rendering/build pipelines and IPC named pipes once produced a literal error message "pipe is broken", which caused a false alarm.
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