Disaster Recovery Working Group

The Disaster Recovery Working Group improves the disaster recovery mechanism for GitLab SaaS and Self-Hosted Products.

Attributes

Property	Value
Date Restarted	August 1, 2022
Date Created	November 11, 2020
End Date	January 6, 2025
Slack	#wg_disaster-recovery (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc	Working Group Agenda (only accessible from within the company)
Overview & Status	Internal Handbook

In the context of this working group:

Recovery Point Objective (RPO): maximum duration of time in which data might be lost due to an incident.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO): maximum duration of time that a service is unavailable due to an incident.

The working group exists to coordinate the delivery of cross-team efforts that improve both the values and the confidence in our RTO and RPO targets.

The exit criteria and target goals for the working group are defined here in the internal handbook.

Working Group Role	Person	Title
Facilitator/DRI	Andras Horvath	Engineering Manager, Gitaly
Product Management DRI	Mark Wood	Senior Product Manager, Gitaly
Member	Gerardo Lopez-Fernandez	Engineering Fellow, Infrastructure
Member	Chun Du	Director of Engineering, Enablement
Member	Lucie Zhao	Engineering Manager, Geo
Member	Sampath Ranasinghe	Senior Product Manager, Geo
Member	John Jarvis	Staff SRE, Infrastructure
Member	Michele Bursi	Engineering Manager, Delivery
Member	Sami Hiltunen	Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly
Member	Joshua Lambert	Director of Product Management, Enablement
Member	Ahmad Sherif	Senior SRE, Infrastructure
Member	Fabian Zimmer	Director of Product Management, SaaS Platforms
Member	Nick Westbury	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Geo