How a major museum runs on Python
summary
A museum runs a distributed Python stack: 350+ Raspberry Pi devices as media players and label screens, Balena OS and Docker for deployment, a Django-based XOS for content/configuration, and Kubernetes with horizontal autoscaling for cloud hosting. Visitors use The Lens NFC reader to collect items; Pi 4s play 1080p video for hours and Pi Zero units run a single-container climate sensor with Prometheus metrics. SD card failures are the main hardware hit and Sandisk industrial cards reduce that risk. Most systems work reliably and the code is open source.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 7:25The ACMI Lens Reader
- 8:02Why didn't we build a phone app instead of the Lens?
- 8:45How did we choose which devices to use?
- 11:07The benefits of experimentation with small devices
- 12:20Herding cats with Balena
- 13:39Tapping to explore
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