2021-09-17 - Sys Ops & Management SIG Agenda and Notes

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FOLIO infrastructure / NFRs

What are we going to do with the debt?

• Harry is concerned about the PC and their perspective

  • The App Store model comes with some communication problems, some people are concerned that they will loose support for key features

  • Roadmap document lists features

  • Harry is trying to balance features with these NFRs that can directly impact our ability to expand the user base and developer base

    • How to we get NFRs onto the roadmap

• Jason wants a way to surface NFRs to a roadmap level.

• James would like to see a short paragraph that explains the desired arrangement of Code and Functionality that does not include the phrase "App Store"

• Anton is interested in combining modules back together to reduce the total number of modules

  • Combine Storage and Business Logic modules: Lots of support; Get rid of the storage modules

    • Should improve performance by reducing HTTP calls

    • Later combining schemas could further improve this

• Brandon mention that there is some orchestration in OKAPI that can create issues

  • Brandon would like to see this removed, so that modules can be upgraded without running directly into OKAPI

  • OKAPI shouldn't do any kind of orchestration; We want a leaner OKAPI

  • Brandon wants this to a pure API gateway and not let it deploy containers

    • Anton agrees and is interested in replacing OKAPI with a more standard library

      • Folks are interested in this, but it is a lot of work and will take significant time to unwind

    • Ian has looked at other API gateways and is interested in the Platform Components coming more off-the-shelf

      • Ian advocates for NOT asking for permission for this kind of change.

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FOLIO Integrations

• Jason, Axel, and Florian where all at the Integrations meeting on Tuesday

• Jason is consolidating and cleaning up spreadsheets on integrations

  • He is planning to merge is work into https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O8orRx2dBedaeWIkbN30v2ZHyRG6BgecLXgy5xL35bQ/edit#gid=128727445

• We are still seeking feedback, it should be easier to collect once the spreadsheet is ready

  • Ingolf is directly soliciting feedback until Tuesday 9/21 at 10am EST, particularly about Pain Points

• What are the next steps

  • Talk to Implementers Group and then try to get onto the Roadmap

    • Who is on the Roadmap group and how often to they meet? It was created out of the PC

      • FOLIO Roadmap including member list