Re: As long is customers put up with it...
Beer making is by its normal nature a batch process. Details are readily available, I won't go into it.
The idea of WRB was to use a continuous flow process. The ingredients went in at the bottom of a (stainless steel?) tower. They gradually rose up and as they did so passed through horizontal screens and temperature zones until the final product was decanted from the top (as the ABV increases the density decreases, which is what the process depends on to work.)
The problem with a continuous process is quality control, because if something goes wrong you have a lot of stuff in the middle of a big tower that somehow has to be removed. So the product has to be absolutely lowest common denominator to have any chance of working.
I suspect that the Microsoft update pipeline is a bit like this, it's very difficult to stop the process and remove bad stuff.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
