<aside> 💡 The Production Engineering team merged with ProbeLab on 23rd January 2023. This page and those under it are to be considered historical and will eventually be archived.

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(Also available as a Google Present doc)

Short Timeline

• Dec '21 - At NetOps summit, Ian proposes that NetOps focusses on production engineering
• Feb '22 - Sid proposes new Production Engineering team, recruits Ian to lead
• Start Apr '22 - Ian transitions to Production Engineering team
• Early Apr '22 - Ian breaks arm, low availability for 7-8 weeks
• Late Apr '22 - Team orients around improving gateway TTFB
• May '22 - Focus on increasing data locality in gateway by improving garbage collection
• Jun '22 - Tom Hall joins team, transitioning from Bifrost

Q2 2022 Achievements

• Actively managed project board
• Public presence on Notion
• Defined initial project to improve gateway TTFB
• Reviewed and fixed relevant metrics in gateway
• Improved tracing support in go-ipfs and components
• Researched factors involved in TTFB
• Created live environment for a/b testing of gateway changes
• Proposed tractable first task to improve retention of blocks via GC
• Implemented recording of block retrieval times and request frequencies