2022-05-20 - 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.

• 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

There has been some mis-understanding about the ownership of this document. The ownership is TC, not SysOps SIG.

We think the sections in this document need to re-grouped and re-written. We could not make any prioritizations at this state of the work.

• Ingolf will re-wind the document to pre-meeting , thus restore changes that have been (accidentally) lost during the meeting. Then he will re-insert the changes / comments made during the meeting.
• Wayne will take that document and compile a SysOps-Version of the document; with pain points from the system administrators perspective
• A core group of Wayne, Jakub, Jason, Ingolf, maybe others (Marc) will meet on Wednesday 12 EST (noon; 6 PM central European time).