Refactoring Analytics for Multi-Mode Design
Today has been a lot of coding on a change that I was asked to do - and in truth, it's a nice feature to have in the experiment analytics. It's basically the request that all attribution schemes be active in the system at once, and then there is just a different URL for the different versions of the code and data.
This is not unlike what I've done in the past, and it's a good way to allow things to be isolated and roll-out new features without having to mess with a long and involved testing process. But the problem here is that we have a finite redis space, and there's only so much I can do at 50k msgs/sec, and while I would love to have all the versions running side by side, I've already had problems getting the first one working and fitting in redis.
I know this doesn't compute to the current Management, and it's sad that the guy doesn't really understand what's going on and just admit it. Sadly, that seems to be hard for a lot of managers - it makes them seem more human, but at the same time, forces them to expose their weaknesses.
Anyway... I've been re-writing this code all day, and I think I have it all code complete. In the morning I'll try it out in UAT and see how it goes.