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
Task | Who | Notes/Links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
Overall structure of course | @Brittney 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.
Task | Who | Notes/Links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
Core value proposition and product vision | ||
High-level system diagrams | ||
Devops | ||
Analytics | ||
Courseware and Course Structure | ||
Scalability | ||
DDD | ||
Reactive Manifesto | ||
SOLID | ||
FED | @Ari Rizzitano (Deactivated), @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated), @Douglas Hall (Deactivated) |
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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
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