[Python Edinburgh] Engineering Weekly Update

[Tom Dalton]

Apologies to everyone that has received this in error - it was meant to go
to our company-internal Edinburgh email address :-(

Tom

On 25 March 2015 at 14:31, Tom Dalton <tom.dalton at fanduel.com> wrote:

> What's the MEAT system?!
>
> On 25 March 2015 at 13:51, Robin Spira <robin at fanduel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> These week's engineering update is below - following some good feedback
>> last week we've made a couple of subtle enhancements to the layout and
>> switched it around so that the Roadmap leads the way...
>>
>> Robin
>>
>>
>> Roadmap Projects
>> ProjectStatus/Highlight/Lowlight*Quick Win Release of the Week*Higher
>> user-created H2H buy-insDeployed a release that adds three new buy-in
>> values for user-created head-to-head contests. These can now be selected on
>> the 'create contests' screen at for both desktop and smartphone sites.
>> DiscoveryAdmin Tools
>>
>> Security workshop held within Engineering last week, looking to open
>> discussion out to wider project team for approval this week.
>>
>> Engineering discussion this week to validate scaling analysis and produce
>> options for addressing NFL 2015 scaling needs.
>> Data & Analytics
>>
>> Data Visualisation: positive demonstration held with Pentaho on 03/03.
>> Session scheduled for 24th on Sizing / usage questionnaire with Eng / BI to
>> complete information required by Pentaho to receive a full quote. Session
>> with vendor scheduled for w/c 30th.
>>
>> Web Analytics: Contract signed off for move to Google Analytics Premium.
>> Session with Google scheduled for 25th to start to plan out engagement post
>> arrangement commencing on 1st of April.
>>
>> Iterative stream: Backlog in process of being formed and prioritised.
>> Project RefreshCS & external email audit complete with catch up planned
>> for NY this week to agree next steps.Finance
>>
>> Output from the 2 day workshops from 26th / 27th Feb written up and
>> circulated to attendees. Breakdown of programme scope into a prioritised
>> list of delivery items complete.
>>
>> Finance programme team in NY this week for a 2 day workshop with NetSuite
>> in New York on the 25th and 26th March.
>>
>> Further sessions also to be held in NY on Ticketing and Process.
>> Moving to DeliveryLobbyLobby Inception is planned for 30th March to 1st
>> April to be held in Edinburgh. Participants from all affected areas have
>> been identified and invitations sent. Inception planning and preps taking
>> place this week.EnvironmentsSprint 2 in progress - Historical has now
>> been added to the Devstack and work is underway to add API to the Devstack
>> template. Initial static data has been identified and proven. Work to
>> handle the service clients is ongoing.Scalability
>>
>> Just finished planning new sprint for Scalability. Focus will be on quick
>> wins following on from Percona audit of HDProd, Game Services and Load
>> Balancing.
>> Stress Test for ScalabilityEnvironments now working for edit testing. No
>> problems identified with log-ins. So far tests show us being able to
>> perform 400-800 edits per second, with a 2 minute cycle. Investigating
>> cause for this. Given that our conservative KPI for 2015 is 1120 and
>> aggressive 1920 edits per second still need to ramp up testing.In
>> DeliverySettlement
>>
>> Sprint 3 (Prepare Contest) closed and Sprint 4 (Seats) started. We now
>> have test resource working through the backlog of tests,aiming to catch up
>> this sprint. This sprint gets us to a position where we have the basic end
>> to end settlement pipeline in place. This will lead onto initial
>> performance and (robustness) re-entrant testing in the next sprint.
>> Draft Screen
>>
>> Current sprint ends on Wednesday, final stories are in dev and confident
>> to close sprint off with no carry over. This sprint puts in position to
>> start release of draft screen to public with just some URI work which take
>> place in following sprint. Additionally JFDI request for additional H2H
>> stake levels is complete and product have confirmed it for launch.
>> Know Your CustomerJava based verification attempt storage is
>> progressing. Full sprint planning is scheduled this week to rebuild the end
>> to end plan including the geo-location requirements.Line Up Centric Live
>> ScoringSprint 1 currently in development focusing on live scoring,
>> environments for testing and development and empty state (i.e. no live
>> games). Some finalisation on design being worked on.API & Mobile Apps
>> projectSprint planning completed with target content of the new 3 H2H
>> price points, QPR for Kotikan and initial LCLS requirements.Game
>> Services and Platform
>>
>> Team mainly focused on scaleability improvements with additional specific
>> effort on KYC, Environments, Stress testing and Ledger work for settlement.
>>
>> (All other cards are on the "customer" boards.).
>> Sportdata
>>
>> The sportdata release intended to go out last week with "last used date"
>> API capability for Draft Screen, scalability improvements and settlement
>> fixes was delayed till Monday to prevent any impact to the Android release.
>>
>> Note: This release has surfaced an issue with NHL live scores and has
>> been rolled back.
>>
>> Sportdata support for LCLS appears now to have a good technical solution
>> resolving both consistency and scalability. This goes into planning this
>> week.
>>
>> (Cards moving to being on customer boards)
>> Turbo Proof of ConceptFirst week of Turbo development has gone very
>> well. Sports data is streaming into the prototype from the
>> sportsdatallc.com API, and simple scoring is being completed on game
>> events. Next up is building the lineup/player data layer in preparation for
>> a small test game (via a console interface, as work has not yet begun on
>> the HTML5 mobile app component of Turbo).
>>
>>
>> Non Roadmap
>> Project
>> Area
>> Status
>> *Site Uptime*Web100% uptime. API100% uptime. Site Issues
>>
>> A CBB game went into triple overtime last Saturday. It appears the stats
>> provider sent a boxfile with a typo in it, causing the final score to
>> appear incorrectly on the iOS and Android apps. The typo had no impact on
>> users' winnings or total points earned, it was only a display issue.
>> (Cosmetic Issue)
>>
>> On Monday night Live Scoring for NHL was not updating correctly for 1hour
>> 15 minutes. Games were showing as live, but scores were fixed at 0 for all
>> players/teams/seats. The latest Sportdata release was rolled back and
>> resolved the issue. (Minor Issue)
>> *Infrastructure*AWS
>>
>> AWS Technical account manager to visit the office every 2 weeks
>> initially, poised to help us with ELB and future scaling work.
>>  DBAHave prioritised a portion of work to begin with, other cards need
>> to be run through a stresstest - work ongoing. Stress testingHaving more
>> and more areas of the app built in CloudFormation has allowed us to speed
>> up the provisioning of this environment and allows quicker tear-up and
>> tear-down of apps and services - work still ongoing but edit flow is
>> functional. AWS API rate limits have slowed this work down but a PR is
>> under discussion to resolve this. Monitoring
>>
>> Deploying DataDog component-by-component and setting up alerts on those
>> components. Also supporting stresstesting team with dashboards and
>> monitoring features.
>>
>> Trialling new version of graylog against logstash/kibana and splunk to
>> discover differences and make decision on syslog tool going forward.
>>  PenTestingWorked with Penetration Tester to discover likely areas of
>> vulnerability, awaiting their report.Office ITAreas of Focus
>>
>> Looking into Compliance requirements -
>>
>>    - Restructuring Google admin OU's to reflect organisational structure
>>    w/b 23rd
>>    - Enforcing 2 step verification to specific OU's w/b 23rd
>>    - Awaiting results of In-house security/penetration testing.
>>    - Management solutions, looking at 1 or 2 in more detail - decision
>>    w/e 27th
>>    - Onboarding project meeting - streamlining New york process for IT
>>    onboarding and shared documentation processes that Edinburgh uses.
>>    - Updated new start equipment for Edinburgh - shared with New York.
>>    - Testing and evaluating mobile device & device lab management policy
>>
>> Awaiting results of In-house security/penetration testing before
>> deciding on VPN solution - looking at in-house solution due to timescale
>> issues with vendor
>>
>> Planning discussion around security and suitability of storage
>> preferences (Google drive/Dropbox) - To discuss with Adam Holder
>>
>> Looking at desktop cable management for all office meeting spaces with
>> additional signage for sources/inputs. Apple TV, Chromecast installed in
>> theatre area and PS4 to be installed.
>>
>> Boardroom upgraded with new screens
>>  NYC Office
>>
>> AV cable installations progressing - Screen/AV installation commencing
>> w/e 27th
>>  Edinburgh Office
>>
>> Control system for office screens - Programming w/b 23rd March
>>
>> Additional screens installations - general office when suitable.
>>
>> Polycom - Demo 25th
>>
>> Sky installation - chasing third party to run cables w/e 27th
>>
>> MEAT system - awaiting more stock to commence installation
>>
>> Back up Leased LIne ordered - progressed to next stage.
>>  Glasgow Office
>>
>> Leased Line contract - next stage - civils & engineering
>>
>> IT requirements - basic requirements
>>
>> Sky/screens/meeting rooms/VPN, firewall, network config requirements -
>> continuing to plan requirements
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