[Scale-planning] Tech: The good, the bad, and the ugly...

[Lori Barfield]

i heard multiple comments about good network performance this year.  rock
solid.

must be the shirts.

...lori
On Feb 25, 2014 10:49 AM, "Stuart Sheldon" <stu at actusa.net> wrote:

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> A quick report from the Tech side of things...
>
> What we managed to do right:
>
> This year, the network came up, and with a little work with the hotel
> and Level3 we were able to deliver an awesome internet experience for
> attendees and exhibitors both.
>
> Wireless seemed rock solid for the entire show, and the new IP names of
> scale and scale-slow did exactly what they intended. This is the first
> time I have ever seen any statistics that showed 5g being the primary
> network of choice.
>
> The registration network and self registration system delivered on
> reliability and security this year. The use of Raspberry Pis for this
> was once again a well executed implementation of inexpensive hardware.
>
> The new Tech Stats sign outside of the NOC was a big hit as well this
> year. I don't think I saw a time when at least one person wasn't looking
> at it.
>
> The new radios that Tom in A/V selected for this year for the most part
> did exactly what we needed.
>
> And there were the orange shirts... This year if you had a question
> about anything related to SCaLE and couldn't find anyone to ask, you
> must have been color blind. No one could miss us with the new Tech
> shirts! Of all the feed back I got, I heard more positive comments from
> attendees about the shirts than almost any other new thing we did this
> year!
>
> What needs improvement:
>
> I almost put this up in the successful list, but although it worked
> flawlessly when someone called in, not many people did call in. This was
> most likely due to two things, lack of advertising around the hotel and
> the orange shirts eliminating many potential calls. I'm not sure what
> this will eventually turn into, but I believe we will be re-inventing
> this a bit for SCaLE 13x.
>
> Configuration Management was a goal for this year that we just couldn't
> fit into the short time we had left over for new things this year. I'm
> hoping we can move toward completing this earlier in our work cycles.
>
> Network Device Dependency is another thing that we need to do better.
> Although I am used to tracking things down via standard documentation, I
> am sure a visual representation of the network tree would be extremely
> useful to others in the NOC. I'll personally take this on, but would
> love input as well.
>
> This year was awesome! We all worked as a team, and we all shared our
> knowledge as a group. I hope everyone learned something this year, I
> know I did!
>
> Stu
>
>
> - --
> "Just remember, when you?re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed."
>               -- Charles M. Schulz
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