Month: June 2019

Categories
Process Site Reliability

Preventing Business Failure

(Decorist : 5/19-5/19)

Challenge

Realized a key analytics ETL server was a crucial component of the engineering infrastructure and without redundancy.

Action

  • Crafted a plan to remediate risk.
  • Performed AWS devops necessary to bring up 2nd instance.
  • Trained-up data engineer.
  • Worked with Data Engineer and offshore Tiger Team of 2 to deliver a process for spinning up a Docker-based backup server.

Results

  • Created replacement Docker image (and recovery process) to be spun-up, ensuring business continuity in catastrophic situation.
Categories
Analytics Troubleshooting

Missing Mixpanel

(Decorist : 3/19-5/19)

Challenge

Late discovery that new initaitive/partnership was missing a key metrics instrumentation.

Action

Jumped in and instrumented, verifying in Mixpanel. Worked with Director of Data Science to formulate Jira stories breaking down the problem into discrete chunks/units-of-work towards cleaning up/adding new events in the future.

Results

  • Launched new strategic initiative on time and empowered the business to have greater analytics clarity.