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This was the sort of environment in which wobbly tech could cost millions in a moment. So Rik was a little surprised when, on top of the usual student chores of fetching coffee and doing drudgework, he was also asked to look at"the platform hosting a real-time graph used to inform the shift traders." The graph wasn't critical, but sometimes revealed market intelligence that proved extremely profitable and impactful.
Folks from the engineering team were able to find the relevant Java and C code, and – after examining it and chatting to colleagues – Rik learned its purpose was to monitor a single real-world variable and graph it. He discovered that a previous student on placement wrote a driver for a General Purpose Interface Bus for the sensor that sucked in the variable, and a Java http servlet to read it and share it.
As his inquiries progressed, he was asked if code for the app existed, and if it was worth persisting with, or could be replaced with an off-the-shelf system.