Services/Meetings/2013-08-14

• Time: Weds at 9:15 AM PST / 12:15 PM EST / 5:15 PM UTC.
• Place: Mozilla HQ, 3-Zombocom (Vidyo room "Services")
• Phone (US/Intl): 650 903 0800 x92 Conf: 98616#
• Phone (Toronto): 416 848 3114 x92 Conf: 98616#
• Phone (US): 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf: 98616#

Who's away?:

Ops

Hardware, Projects & Other

• (jbonacc) Dropping something in here...
  • QA needs status of Sync Stage environment - we just may need it for picl/sync

Engineering

Metrics (benbangert/rmiller/vng/trink)

Heka

• Added support for external plugin sub-packages to cmake build system.
• Removed compiler warnings.
• Added support for a global Heka root folder for persistence through restarts.
• Heka now supports a config directory instead of just a single config file.
• Removed ill-advised panic recovery attempts around invoked plugin code.
• Fixed a couple of WhisperDB output bugs (db corruption and aggregation failure).
• Added LogfileDirectoryManagerInput which can be used to load many different log files of the same format (e.g. the same log file from multiple hosts) w/ a single configuration.
• Active outreach to sync and picl-idp ops / developers to support them in getting a working Heka deployment.

Sync (telliott)

• (jbonacci) Talk, talk, and more talk. QA could sure use a good summary (up to this point)...
  • We got new auth on top of some sync/picl thing probably living in AWS with DB in PHX1 (is that about right?)

SimplePush (jr)

• Need to accelerate high capacity capabilities a bit.

EU team (alexis, hannosch, tarek)

Loads

• the doc has been improved - http://loads.readthedocs.org
• started to add a web dashboard to see the ongoing load tests on the AWS loads cluster - http://loads.services.mozilla.com
• need to sync w/ Jeremy and Benson. They are also doing load tests on Simple Push
• The external runners had been reworked (to be used in PICL with JS)

MLS (Mozilla Location Service)

• Switched local testing from sqlite to mysql to better match RDS and use some mysql specific functionality
• Reworked sql connection pooling and test db isolation
• Added explicit master/read-replica connections and use read-replica for all read-only functionality
• Bunch of minor website updates, changed map to a heatmap
• Started reading up on celery as a potential async worker / timed job scheduler with configurable backends (probably mysql at first to avoid additional ops-complexity)

QA

Sync Server (jbonacci)

• Worked with OPs yesterday and late last night on CW-20130813 and Bug 902652