September 16, 2016

Owned by Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)
Last updated: Sept 27, 2016 by Piotr Mitros (Deactivated)

Meeting with edX chief scientist: Piotr Mitros (Deactivated)

  • Using UUID is typically not a good technique. Leads to a lot of bugs. Can we use deterministic unique IDs instead?
    • A SHA/MD5 hash of unique information (e.g. generating machine IP, time stamp, name, and possibly content).
    • Something semantic (e.g. notification-18.72.1.45-email-pmitros-98451)
  • Handling aggregation
    1. You have __ new messages
    2. "Due this week" email – summarize and combine all deadlines into something nice
  • Should not couple channels and delivery
    • We want to build XBlocks without knowing what (future) delivery channels the deployment may support
    • We want to be able to add channels to an edX deploy without breaking existing XBlocks
  • xBlock configuration
    • finding all types of notifications in the xBlock
    • the user policy UI can aggregate all the notification types from all xBlocks in the course - so users can configure xBlock-specific notifications
  • Websockets have limited support in django (as of when last looked)
  • Look at ejabberd for a messaging layer
    • Erlang high speed notification framework. Started as a chat system, but ended up working in many other places due to ridiculous scaling