SysOps SIG NFRs Initiative & Integrations Work Group Meeting

Date

Oct 5, 2021

Attendees

@Ingolf Kuss

@Ian Walls

@jroot (Unlicensed)

@Philip Robinson

@Wayne Schneider

@Robert Douglas

@jpnelson

@Chris Rutledge (second half)

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Meeting Link

https://zoom.us/j/591934220
Password: folio-lsp

Goals

Push forward our NFRs initiative / Define and describe top 3 NFR requirements that cause most pain and need to be worked on
Integrations initative: Collect integrations from more Implementers, group and prioritize.

Discussion items

Time	Item	Who	Notes

Item	Who	Notes
		Note Taking: Ian ; Ingolf
FOLIO infrastructure / NFRs	Ingolf	Next Steps // ToDos // What we should focus on I.) Define 1 - 3 NFR requirements Work on 1 NFR per release, or span across multiple releases. Start with end user Pain Points; these will get the biggest attention: Check Out Performance ; no root causes determined, yet. That is a case for examining the domain boundaries. You need to store too much. It requires careful consideration. It results in a monolithic chunk. Do we really want that ? You might want to have an ERM only system without inventory. The data import problem => srs has relational database schemas; most data import ... talks directly to Kafka; issues with Kafka in multitenancy environments. Wayne: that work is done. You can use one Kafka across multiple Kafka instances and also the tenant id as part of the ... Summary from our discussion 10/01:
		Is this in the scope of SysOps, or more for SMEs/POs/SIGs? It is between SMEs and architects. Circulation may be a good example of this; so much information about loans, inventory and patrons has to be consulted to perform circulation actions. Can some of those calls be reduced? Users shouldn't require circulation.
		I.b)) Get rid of the distinction between business logic modules and storage modules. fully embrace the microservices architecture / need to reconcile this concept with merging BL and storage modules. define operations where eventual consistency is fine "Get rid of storage modules" Is this Domain Boundaries in another form? Yes. Can I run a big module independently of the rest of these things ?
		mod-source-record-storage has been re-engineered to be more relational to improve performance
FOLIO Integrations		Status of the work of the Integrations Working Group Question to Paula about having us in the Implementers Group => no response yet; Oct 5th Implementers has been cancelled Integrations Pain Points Tab Folio Source Data and Integrations Goal: rank integration pain points... maybe not ready to do that yet today. SSO seems like a possible high priority. Much work has been done on INN-Reach. Much is apart from the capacity planning process. One Option is: Hire EBSCO, IndexData or some other vendor. E.g. only very few institutions have remote storage; not main stream modules. Other examples: CAIASOFT, Dematic. Capacity Planning is only one possible group to work with; we're empowered to push our own institutional needs (provided we provide the necessary resources to make it happen). Cap Planning cannot provide resources for the entire project. The FOLIO module mod-remote-storage abstracts the need for particular vendors to manage remote storage. The edge modules specify the integrations for particular vendors edge-caiasoft, edge-dematic. The vendors pour their resources in to get the development done.
Topics for future meetings		Migration scripts between FOLIO instances; e.g. circulation rule migration

Zoom Chat

Wayne Schneider: Perhaps data normalization is a better term than integrity in this context
Ian Walls: How much does it 'cost' to spin up a module in terms of cluster resources? How much of that is overhead, and how much is meaningful logic?
Wayne Schneider: That’s a great question, Ian. Of course, it depends (in large part on the data set).
That is, if you’re trying to operate on a lot of data at once, you need more heap. If you’re operating on one thing at a time (e.g. circulation), not so much.
Root, Jason M: Indeed there are some memory requirements that are determined by the module developers. I consider those the “minimum requirements” for memory at least.
Ian Walls: The topic of "making FOLIO easier to install" has been brought up in all 3 Councils several times in the last few weeks. So it's getting airtime
Philip Robinson: That’s good to hear, Ian - I knew TC was on it of course but didn’t know about the others

Action items

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Get NFRs on the Roadmap

@jroot (Unlicensed) will ask @Paula Sullenger to have us speak up in the Implementers Group.

All: Pull together a list of existing JIRAs (UXPRODs, Epics) for these top NFR requirements. Post it in the Chat. Edit these JIRAs / Add more JIRAs (UXPROD, stories).

2021-10-05 - Sys Ops & Management SIG