On 01/06/2012 01:08 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
We're really excited to have Andrew on board to
help bring some
systems rigor to our data gathering process. Our current data mining
regime involves a few pieces of lightweight data gathering
infrastructure (e.g. udp2log), a combination of one-off special
purpose log crunching scripts, along with other scripts that started
their lives as one-off special purpose scripts, but have gradually
become core infrastructure. Most of these scripts have single
maintainers, and there is a lot of duplication of effort. In
addition, the systems have a nasty tendency to break at the least
opportune times. Andrew's background bringing sanity to insane
environments will be enormously helpful here.
(See episode S10E07, "The Shadow Scripts,"
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/31/data-analytics-at-wikimedia-foundatio…
)*
Andrew is based out of Virginia, but is still
traveling the world.
Right now, you'll find him in New York City. Please join me in
welcoming Andrew to the team!
I congratulated him IN PERSON five minutes ago, because we're coworking
today. There's another New Yorker now, yay!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
* I am being silly and acting as though this blog entry were an episode
of a science fiction TV show.