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Self-contained deployment: no runtime to chase
The application ships with everything it needs. On a studio machine that nobody administers, that is worth more than a smaller download.
Read the postRunning well on the machine you already have
Studio PCs are rarely new. Four deliberate optimisations make a large library workable on hardware nobody is going to replace this year.
Read the postMigrating from another automation system without going off air
The risk in a migration is not the software. It is doing it in one step, on a live station, on a Monday.
Read the postA single-PC station: what one machine actually has to do
Plenty of stations run on one computer. Here is what that machine is responsible for, and where the pressure points are.
Read the postWhat to back up, and what it costs you to lose
Five files hold your entire configuration. Copying them weekly is the cheapest insurance a station can buy.
Read the postWhere the passwords live
A studio machine sits in an unlocked room. Any credential written to disk in plaintext is a credential available to anyone who sits down at it.
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