*** DBAs asking for "shielding" help so that
they can focus on their
goals; try to intercept things that you can that are
addressed to them
For context, even if it is probably not necessary, but it could sound
pretty selfish if not (everybody has its goals), the goal happens to be
"have backups working after the current system broke", and that is the only
reason we are pushing hard for it. Those backups include most of your
relational data, too. O:-)
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Tue:
> * answered question and reclosed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176926
> * looked at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187850 (labsdb
> mediawiki-config cleanup)
>
> Wed:
> * looked at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187792 (wikihistory
> pounding toolsdb)
>
> Thur:
> * quiet day for me, but big progress on PAWS things from Chico and Zhu
>
> Fri:
> * poked at tools.paws k8s stuff with Chico
>
> Mon:
> * SRE meeting
> ** Filippo promoted to Senior SRE
> ** Mark starting to plan for "SRE summit" at the end of the fiscal year
> (June)
> ** DB backup work progressing, but will be tight for goal depending on
> fires that pop up
*** DBAs asking for "shielding" help so that
they can focus on their
> goals; try to intercept things that you can that are
addressed to them
> ** Lots of hardware things happening both procurement and replace
> ** misc db cluster decomm <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183469>
> flagged as needing WMCS help. (Was this just the backup thing that
> Madhu handled?)
> ** Row B network work coming <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183585>
> ** [BLOCKED] SMART monitoring: enable on lab* hosts
>
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/412860/
> ** Raised our procurement, DCOPS tasks
> ** Mentioned Arturo's nftables discussion
> ** Alex/Giuseppe to present to kubecon EU, you will get a preview
> presentation
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/
> kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2018/program/schedule/
>
>
> Bryan
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