At first, dark factories were only used for writing code faster. They focused on the software development process, and basically replaced IDEs. And that’s still primarily how they are used today. I do see some shops making good headway into CI/CD pipelines and peripheral business processes. But dark factories are headed towards handling infrastructure, operations, and even core business processes.
Gas Town users soon realized that you could use Gas Town’s stack to create standalone orchestrators that had nothing to do with writing code. Gene Kim and I have talked to companies that are doing this, and I’ve also started myself. Running my online game Wyvern requires a bunch of routine maintenance that goes way beyond CI/CD.
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