Arch Course Meeting Notes: 2018-07-30

edX Course

Here are some tasks that can be parallelized and worked on independently.  We can break into groups or pair up during the meeting.

High-level Tasks

TaskWhoNotes/Links/etc.
Overall structure of courseBrittney Exline (Deactivated)Robert Raposa,  Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)Christopher Lee (Deactivated)Greg Sham (Deactivated)See below.
Review the slides in the current presentation and see what's missing

Create edX course in Studio and enable integration with Git

Add speaker notes to current slides (?)

Content-specific Tasks

Create or transfer content to the course - export diagram, add wording, create assessments, etc.

TaskWhoNotes/Links/etc.
Core value proposition and product vision

High-level system diagrams

Devops

Analytics

Courseware and Course Structure

Scalability

DDD

Reactive Manifesto

SOLID

FEDAri Rizzitano (Deactivated)Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)Douglas Hall (Deactivated)

Possible Outline

Crowd-sourced outline:

  • (Section) Introductory
    • (Subsection) edx.Org Intro
      • Mission, Themes
    • (Subsection) Parts of course.
  • (Section) High-level architectural overview
    • (Subsection) 
    • (Subsection) Scale
    • (Subsection) Mobile Strategy?

Outline from Current Presentation

  • Part 1: High-level overview
    • edx Themes
    • DDD principles/overview - slides 5-9
      • edX.org Core
      • Diagram of Core + Customers
      • Subdomains high-level diagram
      • Subdomains + bounded contexts diagram
      • ??? Subdomain interactions
    • edx.org Services
    • Content diagram
    • User diagram
    • Data Sources of Truth
    • Content Data Flow
    • User Data Flow
    • edx.org External Services
    • LMS/Course Content mini-dive
      • Course Structure
      • LMS Screenshots
      • Content Size (# xblocks per course)
      • XBlock Types
      • XBlock details
      • Course Content Extensions
  • Part 2: Scale
    • edx.org Usage Growth
    • edx.org Content Growth
    • Developer Growth
    • Web Usage
    • Mobile Usage
    • Web Performance (New Relic screenshots)
    • Reactive Manifesto
      • Message Driven (future)
    • Scaling in Devops
      • Intro to environments, deployments, clusters
      • Autoscaling groups and other infrastructure
  • Part 3: Technical Details
    • edx-platform components
    • LTI slides
    • Grades slides
    • Analytics slides
    • Schedules
    • XQueue
    • XQWatcher Pull Model
    • XServer Push Model
    • eCommerce
    • Forums
    • Server-side to Front-end templating
    • TODO
      • Devops
      • SSO & OAuth
      • JSInput
      • CAPA 
  • Part 4: Technical Development
    • edx.org Server Environments
    • Tools & Technology (slides)
    • Monitoring and Data Analysis
    • Coding Standards
    • Testing
    • Security and Security Attacks
    • API Design
  • Part 5: Sustainability
    • Case for Architecture
    • Developer Documentation