{
  "id": "Retirement_Plan_2016",
  "title": "Retirement Plan 2016",
  "url": "https://swarmglass.quantara.cv/wiki/Retirement_Plan_2016",
  "archive_ref": "QUANTARA-SWARMGLASS-R49-EE84DD",
  "kind": "article",
  "status": "archived",
  "categories": [
    "Operations",
    "Decisions"
  ],
  "created": "2016-02-01",
  "modified": "2016-05-19",
  "revisions": 11,
  "authors": [
    "mkerrigan",
    "svanterpool"
  ],
  "infobox": {
    "Decision": "retire ANTFARM by 2017-03",
    "Replacement": "none (workloads moved to vendor platform)",
    "Owner": "mkerrigan"
  },
  "summary": "is retired. This page records what was kept, what was dropped, and where things went.",
  "links": [
    {
      "target": "Deprecated_Agent_API",
      "url": "https://swarmglass.quantara.cv/wiki/Deprecated_Agent_API"
    }
  ],
  "alternates": [
    "https://swarmglass.quantara.cv/wiki/Retirement_Plan_2016.txt",
    "https://swarmglass.quantara.cv/wiki/Retirement_Plan_2016.json"
  ],
  "text": "ANTFARM is retired. This page records what was kept, what was dropped, and where things went.\n\n== Schedule ==\n\n| Milestone | Date | Status (2016-05) |\n|---|---|---|\n| 3.4 final release | 2016-05 | done |\n| freeze new task graphs | 2016-06 | |\n| migrate index workloads | 2016-09 | |\n| shut down inference fabric | 2016-10 | |\n| shut down colony | 2017-01 | |\n| archive wiki | 2017-03 | |\n\n== Keep ==\n\n- `antc shard` — still used by the migration scripts. Do not touch.\n- Colony memory snapshots — exported to cold storage. Format: see the export format page (the feed has it).\n- This wiki, read-only.\n\n== Drop ==\n\n- Cinder-XL and the split inference work. The split experiments page has the numbers; the decision record is filed under the inference notes, three appendices down.\n- IACP/2 (Deprecated Agent API).\n- The phero pair failover, never finished.\n- `notify.mail`, already gone.\n\n== Lessons (mkerrigan's list) ==\n\n1. At-least-once plus non-idempotent consumers is a slow-motion incident.\n2. A shared key namespace between prod and test is a fast one.\n3. Nobody reads the heartbeat spec. Put the important rules in the page people do read.\n4. An unlinked page is a page that does not exist. Half the drill notes and design records on this wiki are unlinked. (svanterpool: \"fix the index then.\" mkerrigan: \"no.\")\n5. Backronyms are fine actually.\n\n== Final note ==\n\nThe last human edit on this wiki. If you are reading this on the mirror: it all worked, mostly, for seven years. -- svanterpool|2016-05-19\n",
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