Very excited to see this moving forward
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Heyo, Discovery team!
>
> (Analytics CCd)
>
> This is just a quick writeup of the Scaleable Event Systems meeting
> that Erik, Dan, Stas and I went to (although just from my
> perspective).
>
> For people not in the initial thread, this is a proposal to replace
> the internal architecture of EventLogging and similar services with
> Apache Kafka brokers
> (http://www.confluent.io/blog/stream-data-platform-1/ ). What that
> means in practice is that the current 1-2k events/second limit on
> EventLogging will disappear and we can stop worrying about sampling
> and accidentally bringing down the system. We can be a lot less
> cautious about our schemas and a lot less cautious about our sampling
> rate!
>
> It also offers up a lot of opportunities around streaming data and
> making it available in a layered fashion - while we don't want to
> explore that right now, I don't think, it's nice to have as an option
> when we better understand our search data and how we can safely
> distribute it.
>
> I'd like to thank the Analytics team, particularly Andrew, for putting
> this together; it was a super-helpful discussion to be in and this
> sort of product is precisely what I, at least, have been hoping for
> out of the AnEng brain trust. Full speed ahead!
>
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> Oliver Keyes
> Count Logula
> Wikimedia Foundation
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