Gettin' the Ball Rollin

SUBJECT: On Prem Cloud QA Initiative
FROM: meghan.teller04@charmtech.com
TO: lauren.amira@charmtech.com
CC: mike.roberts02@charmtech.com
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Hey Lauren,

I know you're busy, but I asked Mike and he said you've been DND on Slack for a few days now. Could we connect regarding the latest QA initiative? Just wanted to get any thoughts you might have.

Please get back to me by EOD?

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FROM: lauren.amira@charmtech.com REPLYTO <6e2053a55d0c40c99353c011bce457ba> <79cd014840f7439196d0d68a02114ee8>

I told Mike this already, but running personality update test suites on our assembly drones is not only pointless, but dangerous. One badly configured integration test and we could shut down *at least* one of the lines. Repair and reset could take days, and the total loss one of our lines being down will frankly *dwarf* anything that might come from underutilized compute.

Also, reiterating the contents of my last email on assembly drone hardware: they are all decommissioned not-for-sale product IDs that we've taken off the market. We can't guarantee they'll even be able to run any of our latest updates.

My official recommendation is an emphatic no.

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FROM: mike.roberts02@charmtech.com REPLYTO <79cd014840f7439196d0d68a02114ee8> <def6c6c0a9b54c5380af5a3f6f32c02a>

Hi Lauren,

Our CEO and CTO agree that we are massively underutilizing compute resources. Especially given our cloud costs. Just to remind you, our efficiency initiative has identified that if we can offload our compute onto our existing units we might be able to save upwards of $25,000/day.

We basically have an army of small computers building even more computers. Why can't we get this done this quarter, let alone this year?