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Docker in Production Engineering: What Actually Belongs in a Container

2026-05-27T13:01:18

The production industry still runs on a surprising amount of fragile infrastructure. A critical automation script lives on a programmer’s laptop. A utility app runs on an aging Mac Mini under a desk. A show control tool is configured once and never documented again because “it works, don’t touch it.”…

Limited vs Full Range Video

2026-02-16T10:30:52

HDMI, DisplayPort, and SDI — What Engineers Keep Getting Wrong If you’ve ever seen: There’s a very good chance you were dealing with a range mismatch. Limited vs Full range video is one of the most misunderstood topics in AV engineering. And the confusion only gets worse when you move…