Firefox Accounts DevOps next steps for November

[Chris Karlof]

On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Ryan Kelly <rfkelly at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 5/11/2013 10:58 PM, Lloyd Hilaiel wrote:
>> Not going multi-region from day one makes me nervous.  Technology
>> selections which make it harder make me even more nervous.  Can we hit
>> HA requirements without it?  
> 
> Core outstanding question: what are our concrete HA requirements here?
> The clearest operational requirement we currently have is "get this
> thing stood up fast".  Hence MySQL, hence RDS.
> 

It would be nice to have HA requirements written down. Mayo used to say that 15-20 min failover during a region failure would be fine, but that was before FxA was intended to support the world.

I encourage others to weigh in here. Left to my own devices, I'd lean to taking on more HA risk in the beginning in favor keeping things simple and nimble. I want to aggressively avoid Rube Goldberg complexity foot guns before we even have any users.

-chris


> That said, we haven't taken a Cassandra solution off the table
> completely.  We're still working and coding with it in mind for the
> future, but there was enough uncertainty around it to justify removal
> from the critical path to shipping.
> 
> 
>  Ryan