2022-05-06 - Sys Ops & Management Agenda and Meeting notes

FOLIO Technical Pain Points - DRAFT - Google Docs

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SysOps SIG to answer these questions:

• Is this the right set of pain points ?
• Why and how is something painful ?
• What negative impact does it have  ?
• How do we prioritize it ? 

Note: Detailed notes are linked in the Draft FOLIO Technical Pain Points document.

German group made some changes and created captions to the DRAFT.

• Conflation of gateway and discovery of modules
• Reliance on HTTP as primary communication

• Microservice complexity, message queueing, dependency among modules

• Performance Issues
  • JSONB storage
  • Over-reliance on synchronous updates
  • Version upgrades and required downtime
  • Observability: need appropriate visibility into the code/operation
  • OKAPI inconsistencies and opaqueness

Tod : Pain Points

Technical needs met when standing up FOLIO installs

• is this still current ?
• it could go beyond standing up an installation => upgrades
• tease out the concerns
• prioritize it
• This has been taken up by the Tech Council => TC goals & objectives