Isolation Working Group

GitLab’s Isolation Working Group develop plans that limits disruption to customers when unexpected events occur. Learn more here!

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Date Created October 7, 2019
Date Closed February 28, 2020
Slack #wg_isolation (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc Isolation Working Group Agenda (only accessible from within the company)

Business Goal

To develop a plan that limits disruption to customers when there are “noisy neighbors” or when other unexpected events occur.

Exit Criteria

  1. Determine what is in-scope for the working group and select specific lines of enquiry
  2. For each line of enquiry
    • determine the appropriate goal
    • define backlog of issues
    • provide estimated timeline
    • schedule issues for work with groups
  3. Create guidance on how to address isolation issues

Group Closure Information: All lines of inquiry were incorporated into the Availability and Performance Weekly Meeting.

Specific Lines of Enquiry

Decoupled Service (Craig Gomes) was removed from this working group as this will be a future effort for the Memory group.

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role Person Title
Executive Stakeholder Christopher Lefelhocz Senior Director of Development
Facilitator Rachel Nienaber Engineering Manager, Geo
DRI for Application Level Redis Sharding Grzegorz Bizon Staff Backend Engineer, Configure:System
DRI for File Storage Isolation Andrew Newdigate Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure
DRI for Database Partitioning Craig Gomes Engineering Manager, Memory
Functional Lead Ramya Authappan Quality Engineering Manager, Dev
Functional Lead Fabian Zimmer Senior Product Manager, Geo
Functional Lead Gerardo “Gerir” Lopez-Fernandez Engineering Fellow, Infrastructure
Functional Lead Stan Hu Engineering Fellow, Development
Member George Burdell Campus Alumni Representative
Member Chun Du Director of Engineering, Enablement
Member Wayne Haber Director of Engineering, Protect
Member Nicholas Klick Engineering Manager, Configure:System

Fault Tolerance
GitLab has to be a highly-available, mission critical system.