Team Vision

Vision for the Application Platform

How big is the team, and what are the subteams/squads?

• Guidance Squad

  • 2-3 engineers, but it can overlap with people in other squads

  • Provide requirements & tools for microservice teams to profile

  • Provisional guidance -> permanent guidance

• SRE

  • 2 co-leads, + others?

  • ?? on call stuff how???

  • Goals

    • Identify sets of tools

    • Retrospective analysis

• DevOps

  • 1 lead

  • 2-3 engineers

• Platform (Terraform + k8s extensions + scaling)

  • 1 lead

  • 2-3 engineers

• Team Size: 12 people

  • w/ some churn, target 50% turnover every 3 months

  • Ideally 8 people who are long term, plus 8 churn positions

What is the actual scaling expectation for this entire platform?

• (1) The implied expectation is for a reliable cloud platform, good SLA

• (2) Efficient support for DevOps

• (3) CPU and mem loads need to be known and applied to limits & requests

  • Really a performance testing/metrics question

  • Load testing working group

  • Profiling of each service

• (4) Cloud Burn

How do we expect this team to work long term? Short term?

• Subteams, with team leads or co-leads

• Long term, paid SRE position

  • Beginning of 2022, assuming current scale

• Short term - automated SRE as much as possible

• Interns ( Guidance squad describes a specific project )

• More focus on well articulated tasks ahead of task assignment -> Guidance squad

What’s the technology vision?

• Build before buy, open source - what does this imply?

• What is unique about the nature of this approach/team?

• Culture -> Guidance Team

• Outreach

  • Interface with experts on certain platforms

  • Should we join open source communities ourselves

    • Can we promote our team there somehow

  • Developer advocates

  • Universities (advertising to students, or other avenues like class projects)

  • Attending Conferences

• What happens at large, global, internet scale

  • Are we going to be AWS - that’s not practical

  • Partner with other open source companies

    • Or just with other mid-sized companies

  • We are gonna think this through when we get there

    • But, we’ll try to stay true to our open source values and ecosystem

What can we scale?

What kind of scale questions/needs do other teams have?

Questionnaire for other teams/other team leads

• Things teams might want to do as they scale

  • Performance testing

• Things teams might need to do was they face scale issues

• What services are valuable to provide to volunteers so they can efficiently contribute?

• Frameworks for teams

Team sourcing

• Volunteers sourcing volunteers (friends, coworkers, linkedin, etc)

• Companies getting involved

• Other open source groups

• Advocacy

• Speakers, blog posts, etc