process-automation

How would you design an application to run a machine?

What type of machine you ask? A machine that measures wedge and roundness of lenses. I've already written software for the machine and it is in production, but it is brittle and prone to lock ups when they dont do things in the right order. I'm trying to come up with the best way to architect it so that its stable and maintainable. Her...

Job scheduling /process automation with focus on dependency handling

Hi, I'm looking for some open source software that can handle the execution of jobs in dependency of each other in a Unix environment (linux and solaris). It should "just" be able to run plain unix processes (no network load-balance remote voodoo needed). E.g. I define a bunch of jobs and want to be able to chain them together with dep...