Devstack

onboarding
- following the wrong instructions
  - on wrong link somehow
- didn't understand what the pip env was doing
maintaining
- end up in a broken state and not knowing how to get out of it
  - make destroy as resort → then takes an entire day to recover
  - even by experienced developers
doesn't match Prod
- for example, to test Timed Exams - how can I test it locally?
edx-platform Tests leave too much junk behind
As a FED developer, knowing how the backend data is structured would be helpful
- knowing API model
Micro FED developers still need devstack

"How might we simplify devstack?"

"How might we make microservices and micro-frontends be independent of devstack?"

"How might we make our microservices and micro-frontends not be contaminated by monolithic mindset and practices?"

"How might we selectively run individual microservices on . devstack?"

"How might we make devstack self-monitoring ("Can't ping ecommerce, try restarting it")? Observable ("You are running the newest master for all services except ecommerce, which is running robrap/awesome-branch")? Self-updating?"

e-commerce service

Testing
- time waiting on Travis
- finding what the failures were
- unit tests don't run on devstack successfully
  - sometimes use pytest versus manage.py
Oscar
- Handling of discounts/coupons is wonky - Oscar and our usage
- People are afraid of ecommerce
- Oscar not the right tech choice - probably more for manufactured goods - not for web
Data model is complicated
Making many service calls to the Enterprise API in LMS - improve reliability of the APIs
Wanted to add UserFactory
- Discovering code-trail by chasing inconsistent imports
- Hard to estimate since code is more convoluted

course-discovery

Tests take 45mns on Travis

edx-enterprise

Install in edx-platform - weird dependency between them
- Lack of commitment on whether separate IDA or installed library
- Dependent on edx-platform releases

edx-platform

Releases slow and fragile
Deployment cycle takes a while
- end-to-end
- tests, etc

Multi-Site

Half-in only
LMS just uses filters to show which courses to display
Discovery different
Results in more bugs on WL
After current WL sites go away, unclear of future

Ansible

Sudo instead of Root - spending too much time

Paver

FED

Redux - need established patterns of when NOT to use it
Paragon - not org-wide - might be a buy-in problem

8th Floor Plan

wasted space

Gripes

Hard to collect and capture gripes
Do not always do anything about them

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