> *** 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@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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