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2023-11-30
[inform] (Dave) Submit Open edX conference talks!
[AS][Wild Speculation] Are we in a startup runway situation now?
Should we consider more extreme short-term measures than we normally would, to minimize operating costs in the meantime?
Axim is coordinating a pile of funded contribution (FC) projects to make various improvements already; not a lot of bandwidth for new feature requests right now.
Spent a lot of time discussing this, hard to distill it into key points
2023-11-15
[inform] (Jeremy) https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3927375918/courseware+studentmodule+Table+Refactoring
[musings/questions] (Ned) Mapping people/squads/repos
[Question] (Hilary) If we’re trying to design new db for a model, who is the best person/people to talk to?
Solution Review
Dave Ormsbee at Axim
Many principal/staff engineers
No real DBAs, but…
At least for a while, we have part-time contract DBA via Percona
Also, consult Everything About Database Migrations
[inform] (Jeremy) Socket.dev - tool for tracking dependency health
[quest] (Jeremy) Awareness of Django’s transaction.on_commit() and similar tools which are incredibly useful in the right circumstances. How do we make sure developers are aware of / informed of these when appropriate?
New “everything about concurrency” guide?
Celery
Transactions
Event bus
Django async
[inform] (Alex) Enterprise likes drf-spectacular
Related: Making edX Platform APIs public
Related: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/32609
Should we have a doc/resource of “we like these patterns, do more of this”?
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