Comment by piloto_ciego

Of course you can.

Log File Ingest —> Parser —> Store in DB

Raw Data Ingest —> Apply Savitzky-Golay Filter —> Store in DB

Query Log File and Sensor Database from DB —> Push smoothed data to plotly dashboard

That’s architecture but it is substantially more high level than writing the code for the filter, or the connections to the db etc. It is architecture though, and honestly, I don’t need to spent 20 hours writing all the code to know what it does. I could write a parser from scratch or write that kind of filter from scratch - just need to pull out a book and re-remember the precise requirements etc. But why? This is no different in my mind than using libraries to get the computer to DWIM more conveniently.

Does it mean I understand the code worse than if I would have clacked it out directly? Yup. But it is (as always) a trade off.