On 01/06/2012 01:08 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > We're really excited to have Andrew on board to help bring some > systems rigor to our data gathering process. Our current data mining > regime involves a few pieces of lightweight data gathering > infrastructure (e.g. udp2log), a combination of one-off special > purpose log crunching scripts, along with other scripts that started > their lives as one-off special purpose scripts, but have gradually > become core infrastructure. Most of these scripts have single > maintainers, and there is a lot of duplication of effort. In > addition, the systems have a nasty tendency to break at the least > opportune times. Andrew's background bringing sanity to insane > environments will be enormously helpful here.
(See episode S10E07, "The Shadow Scripts," https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/31/data-analytics-at-wikimedia-foundation/ )* > Andrew is based out of Virginia, but is still traveling the world. > Right now, you'll find him in New York City. Please join me in > welcoming Andrew to the team! I congratulated him IN PERSON five minutes ago, because we're coworking today. There's another New Yorker now, yay! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation * I am being silly and acting as though this blog entry were an episode of a science fiction TV show. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
