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Transmission 04 · 2023

CORE_LINK

Internal tooling for managing legacy mainframe bridge connections.

View source →github.com/amercer/core-link
CORE_LINK interface
FIG.01 — CORE_LINK index capture
Role
Solo — design & build
Stack
Go · React · GraphQL
Timeline
Apr — Nov 2023
Status
Delivered · Internal

// Briefing

The broadcaster's playout schedule still lives on a mainframe, reached through a stack of protocol bridges that only two people understood. When a bridge dropped, finding WHICH one meant a phone call to whoever had the terminal muscle memory.

CORE_LINK inventories every bridge as a typed GraphQL graph and draws the whole chain, end to end, with the failing hop lit. Restarting a bridge is a button with an audit trail instead of a shell session — and the two people got their evenings back.

// Highlights

  • — Every bridge hop made visible
  • — One-click restart, audited
  • — Zero shell sessions since launch
Alex MercerSolid State · Colour Television
LIGHT
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