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Frederick Mannings
Head of Engineering @ OrcaTelemetry.io, Founder
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When To Use Orca, And Why Robotics Is The Sweet Spot

16 min read
Frederick Mannings
Head of Engineering @ OrcaTelemetry.io, Founder

Orca was built for a specific shape of problem - continuous, window-oriented, algorithm-on-algorithm analytics over sensor data. Historically that shape has shown up most clearly in vibration, pressure and temperature analytics. Increasingly - and more interestingly - it is showing up in robotics telemetry, where Orca's design solves a set of problems that the rest of the robotics observability stack only addresses in parts.

Why Hub and Spoke Orchestration Wins For Telemetry Analytics

12 min read
Frederick Mannings
Head of Engineering @ OrcaTelemetry.io, Founder

Telemetry analytics has a shape problem. The data arrives continuously, the logic is event-window based, and the algorithms that produce insight depend on the results of earlier algorithms. Most orchestration frameworks were not designed around that shape - they were designed around periodic batch jobs, or around pure stream processing. Orca takes a different position: a hub and spoke orchestrator that keeps the orchestration logic in one place and pushes the analytics work out to independent, language-agnostic processors.