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Okay. But Please can you tell me how to get in touch with performance team. >I am unable to find any mailing list from herefor them.
Beyond e-mail or irc I couldn't say but without a mentor from that team your project will be difficult to complete.
>Please can you elaborate a bit what exactly you mean by operational data?
Operational data are metrics around how is the "system" doing from the technical standpoint. For eaxmple: CPU load, number of db connections open, number of cache lookups per request...