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(RF) Circle of Life
100

What is the target date to sunset the Façade/WebCore stack?

End of 2021

100

Who all is included in the banner "RF360"?

atrium, Hg, Marina, RFDS, MWDS, but also Asset, iQlink, Pathway, SMT, arboretum...

100
When should you prefer props over state in the front-end?

When the data can be narrowly scoped to that component, and is not deeply nested

100

What kind of entity is this describing? "L1900, on sector 2, in the state of Dark"

A Carrier

100

What is the system that provides Site data to RFDS, and precedes it in the design lifecycle?

Atrium

200

Before Abhi, who was the product owner for RFDS?

Tori

200

What company does Manish work for?

Amdocs

200

Name 3 major components of RFDS' back-end.

EventStore, MongoDB, Microservices, Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, T-Vault

200

What is a material/equipment's SKU used for?

Uniquely identifies the equipment to be ordered by procurement, via the BAT application
200
What are the 5 statuses of RFDS?

Draft, Ready for Review, Final, Completed, and Archived

300

When was the RFDS "microservices release", which included WebCore and Facade?

September 2019

300
What is Doug's favorite animal?
The hippo
300
Which stories/tasks should you do design reviews for?

All of them! Unless it's exactly the same pattern as what you've done before... and even then, think about it

300

What are Ancillary items, and why do they matter?

Items that are typically bundled with other "first-class" items for convenience. E.g. when you buy a backup battery, you always want a cable to connect it with.

300
What  system does RFDS send a Datasheet sent to, once it is marked Final?

BAT (BOM Aggregation Tool). BOM = Bill of Materials

400

Who developed the first "Unified" version of RFDS?

Pariveda

400

Who is the main user group that uses printouts?

Construction teams, who build the actual towers

400

What platform is used to host our instance of EventStore?

Kubernetes

400

In a Cluster, what distinguishes a node and a hub?

Hubs only have a RAN tab, and there is only a single Hub per Cluster. Nodes only have A&L equipment, and there are typically many.
400

On top of APIs, what is a major system integration that lets other apps learn of changes in RFDS?  (Advanced Search uses this)

Entity Snapshots

500

When was the first "Unified" version of RFDS deployed to production?

2015

500

Name 1 of the regional user stakeholders

Michael Upham

Glady Flora

Chau-Hien Hoang

Mariana Nieto Amador

Reshma Dalvi

Greg Johnson

Faisal Khan

Adam Gruenthal

Dapo Grillo

Alok Jani

Prajakt Sathaye

Eaian Alcanices

Michael Ochieng

Roshan Taherian

500

Which service helps Advanced Search return fast results, but can also cause discrepancies compared to WebCore/SWV?

ElasticSearch

500

What is the difference between a SitePlan and Layout, and where do we use them?

SitePlan tracks the version, project type, approval status, etc.

Layout contains the actual equipment contents of the design.

500

What is the intended purpose of a "Close-out package," before setting a Datasheet on-air?

Corrects any discrepancies between the final design, and what the construction team really saw at the physical location