Blog · 2011

Asset inventory

A network drawing itself in three dimensions over a twilight valley: glowing cyan, violet, sage and one orange-red filament fan outward from a single bright seed-node, blooming into discovered nodes, while a honeybee in flight carries a luminous trace-line toward the next.

Asset inventory · Operational resilience

The live architecture graph, fifteen years early: our 2011 discovery prototype

2011-05-18

Long before live inventory became a board-level demand, a distributed program written in Limbo, running on Inferno, was already discovering a network and streaming it into a 3D graph in real time. Here is the footage, and the line that runs from that prototype to what we ship today.