Welcome andrew! Super excited to have you joining us!
Diederik
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On 2012-01-06, at 13:13, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
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-foundation... )*
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.
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