KPI Metrics
Metaphors and Abstractions
Know Your Services
Potpourri
100

This is currently planned to be done on July 21, 2021.

What is Goliath MVE?

100

An agile and swift animal that represents Go Services contrasted with the large and slow elephant that represents our Python codebase

What is a gazelle?

100

The Goliath service responsible for serving all of our content to other services

What is the Content Service?

100

The coding language that is responsible for the project code-name Goliath

What is Go?

200

The number of services that have been completely ported to Go

What is 7?

200

An elaborately decorated confection that represents the many layers of our product, with the top layer being all the product benefits that Goliath will enable 

What is a princess cake?

200

The service responsible for handling our philanthropic needs

What is the Donations service?

200

The cute and cuddly animal that is the mascot for the Go Language

What is a Gopher?

300

56% of this goes to Goliath services

What is site traffic?

300

The common name used to refer to the lump of old Python code we’re porting to Goliath

What is the Monolith?

300

The Goliath service that handles all of our GraphQL traffic and federates to other services

What is the GraphQL Gateway?

300

The year we first talked about re-writing our backend

What is 2018?

400

The percentage of Goliath MVE complete +/- 5%

What is 63.9%?

(59% - 69% ok)

400

The name given to the group of people who helped us with consistent Go code style.

Who are the Go-verners?

400

The Goliath Service responsible for handling all of our user permissions

What is the Admin Service?

400

This tiny service was the first to go into production

What is Mobile Data?

500

The number of services that are currently deployed AND taking traffic, out of a total of 24

What is 18?

500

This place on the early 2020 map "Rise of Goliath" where the dragons live

What is The Monolith?

500

The Goliath Service responsible for handling the majority of Teacher/Student relationships

What is the Coaches Service?

500

The largest number of engineers that ever worked on Goliath during a single sprint +/- 3

What is 60?

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