Meeting Title: US x BF | Standup Date: 2025-09-10 Meeting participants: Emily Giant, Uttam Kumaran, Amber Lin, Demilade Agboola
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1 00:00:18.680 ⇒ 00:00:20.590 Uttam Kumaran: Hello, good morning.
2 00:00:20.590 ⇒ 00:00:22.120 Emily Giant: Morning, how’s it going?
3 00:00:22.120 ⇒ 00:00:23.060 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
4 00:00:24.150 ⇒ 00:00:25.410 Uttam Kumaran: How’s everything?
5 00:00:25.750 ⇒ 00:00:30.470 Emily Giant: not… Not bad, not like yesterday. Okay.
6 00:00:30.620 ⇒ 00:00:34.589 Emily Giant: I mean, yesterday wasn’t bad, it was just, like, huh?
7 00:00:34.590 ⇒ 00:00:42.589 Uttam Kumaran: It’s getting… it’s getting better. It is actually getting better, like, the problems are…
8 00:00:42.980 ⇒ 00:00:48.019 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like for most of the problems, I’m able to solve it now within…
9 00:00:48.220 ⇒ 00:00:55.859 Uttam Kumaran: hour or so. Yeah. Along the way, think about the wins we’ve gotten. Like, we’ve gotten cursor now set up and working.
10 00:00:56.090 ⇒ 00:01:00.240 Uttam Kumaran: the dbt, staging thing is, like, pretty close to working, and we’ve
11 00:01:01.060 ⇒ 00:01:06.769 Uttam Kumaran: snapshots, we’ve deprecated a lot of stuff. There’s probably another, like, 2 or 3 PRs for, like.
12 00:01:06.890 ⇒ 00:01:15.760 Uttam Kumaran: some of the deprecation work… Yeah. I think, maybe last week, about, like, folder changes, and nixing a bunch of stuff, and then.
13 00:01:16.210 ⇒ 00:01:18.449 Emily Giant: I think one or two of the PRs that are left.
14 00:01:18.990 ⇒ 00:01:21.930 Uttam Kumaran: But we’re good, like, it’s like…
15 00:01:21.930 ⇒ 00:01:32.179 Emily Giant: It’s like, it just comes in waves. Like, we’ll think we’re in a, like, solid, peaceful spot, and then, like, Looker is having collisions.
16 00:01:32.180 ⇒ 00:01:36.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and it’s hard to sort of explain, but at the same time, like.
17 00:01:36.740 ⇒ 00:01:44.000 Uttam Kumaran: this is where we’re seeing that the pace at which we can fix jobs, I think, is going up.
18 00:01:44.000 ⇒ 00:01:44.640 Emily Giant: Yeah.
19 00:01:44.640 ⇒ 00:01:49.300 Uttam Kumaran: Also, like, our job runtimes have to go down, because otherwise we can’t…
20 00:01:49.540 ⇒ 00:01:52.769 Uttam Kumaran: Legitimately test within any reasonable window.
21 00:01:52.770 ⇒ 00:01:54.410 Emily Giant: Yeah. You have to wait…
22 00:01:54.700 ⇒ 00:02:01.240 Uttam Kumaran: hours between testing things, it makes it really difficult. And then, of course, our goal should be.
23 00:02:01.240 ⇒ 00:02:06.680 Emily Giant: that bad stuff doesn’t even make it in the system, and so I think it’s getting better from…
24 00:02:07.350 ⇒ 00:02:12.049 Uttam Kumaran: from that standpoint, it’s kind of tough, because I want to go work on new models.
25 00:02:12.460 ⇒ 00:02:19.269 Uttam Kumaran: So, like, a… this is, like, a constant, like, nagging, so I just, like, want to get out of it.
26 00:02:19.270 ⇒ 00:02:27.099 Emily Giant: Yeah, I think once, the Shopify revenue models are done, we’ll be able to, like.
27 00:02:27.100 ⇒ 00:02:44.610 Emily Giant: scale down how much we use from Hivo, and, like, right now, we’re just pumping them both in. We’re, like, fully doing everything twice, and so that’s just gonna put a lot of stress on the system. But I think some of the, like, once I’m able to tweak this Part 3 and add
28 00:02:45.080 ⇒ 00:03:01.210 Emily Giant: I was working on part 4, so I could fix what’s wrong in part 3 and Part 4. Yes. But that’s gonna allow the deprecation of a lot of garbage. And that, like, it… yeah, we’ll get there. I just hope that you’re sleeping.
29 00:03:01.340 ⇒ 00:03:02.210 Emily Giant: And…
30 00:03:02.210 ⇒ 00:03:08.619 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, don’t worry about that. That’s alright. I’m also busy with other stuff, so… Right.
31 00:03:08.960 ⇒ 00:03:22.170 Uttam Kumaran: The only thing, like, this is just one… but also, like, I… I’ve dealt with this in the past, and it’s kind of hairy, so I just want to keep pushing. Yeah. And make sure that, like, for the people that we’re supporting, they feel like
32 00:03:22.650 ⇒ 00:03:30.090 Uttam Kumaran: we’re not, like, just letting things fail. And it’s… we can only do so much, like,
33 00:03:30.460 ⇒ 00:03:33.260 Uttam Kumaran: Like, visual damage control, but…
34 00:03:33.260 ⇒ 00:03:34.140 Emily Giant: Yeah.
35 00:03:34.140 ⇒ 00:03:47.160 Uttam Kumaran: That’s… it’s… it’s okay, like, look, I… I’m… I feel like we’re… we are getting better, and I think for Zach and for everybody, like, they’re seeing us hit problems fast, resolve, actually continue to move the ball forward, so… Yeah. Yeah.
36 00:03:47.160 ⇒ 00:03:53.240 Emily Giant: It’s just like, yeah, it… I don’t think anyone’s concerned. I’m not.
37 00:03:53.360 ⇒ 00:03:56.450 Emily Giant: I just also want to work on new stuff.
38 00:03:56.450 ⇒ 00:03:57.599 Uttam Kumaran: Yes. That’s…
39 00:03:57.600 ⇒ 00:04:09.719 Emily Giant: That’s all. But I… yeah, and you know I’m on vacation starting next week, but I am in town on the 15th and 16th, and probably the 17th, so I don’t mind, like.
40 00:04:10.280 ⇒ 00:04:11.480 Emily Giant: doing stuff, like.
41 00:04:11.480 ⇒ 00:04:19.380 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, maybe one thing we can do this week is just get… give me a sense of, like, anything that I should take on
42 00:04:19.589 ⇒ 00:04:26.720 Uttam Kumaran: While you’re gone. Or you can direct folks to us to ask questions, or… Yeah.
43 00:04:27.040 ⇒ 00:04:28.430 Emily Giant: No, they can all live.
44 00:04:29.020 ⇒ 00:04:37.600 Emily Giant: They’re fine. It’s, just the historical subscription work that I really don’t want to be a blocker.
45 00:04:38.190 ⇒ 00:04:38.800 Uttam Kumaran: Huh.
46 00:04:38.800 ⇒ 00:04:40.379 Emily Giant: If there’s any, like.
47 00:04:40.750 ⇒ 00:04:58.689 Emily Giant: questions, whatever, and I don’t answer on Slack right away, I’m gonna give you guys my WhatsApp, because it’s just gonna block you, nobody else knows. And, like, the lack of redundancy of, like, knowledge of our database is so absurd, but, Alex might kind of know, but, like.
48 00:04:58.880 ⇒ 00:04:59.560 Emily Giant: I… you’re.
49 00:04:59.560 ⇒ 00:05:00.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean…
50 00:05:00.200 ⇒ 00:05:00.790 Emily Giant: That’s…
51 00:05:00.790 ⇒ 00:05:06.190 Uttam Kumaran: That’s fine, we’ll give it a good… we’ll give everything a good crack, and then, yeah, if we need an emergency, yeah, that’s… that’s…
52 00:05:07.150 ⇒ 00:05:10.320 Emily Giant: Not even emergency, just like, I can answer.
53 00:05:11.750 ⇒ 00:05:12.770 Emily Giant: I… yeah.
54 00:05:14.700 ⇒ 00:05:15.790 Amber Lin: Hello.
55 00:05:15.790 ⇒ 00:05:16.250 Uttam Kumaran: Hi!
56 00:05:17.120 ⇒ 00:05:23.890 Amber Lin: Sounds like we are doing a lot of ad hoc, this cycle.
57 00:05:23.890 ⇒ 00:05:25.030 Emily Giant: Yeah.
58 00:05:25.030 ⇒ 00:05:34.869 Amber Lin: I do want to look at what we have here and move some stuff out, so that we have a more reasonable expectation of what we can get done.
59 00:05:34.880 ⇒ 00:05:45.489 Amber Lin: Based on what we have now, do you think any of these main tickets will get done, where the rest of this cycle will still be mostly ad hoc?
60 00:05:46.180 ⇒ 00:05:53.650 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, my, like, 3.45 will get done, and then 3.38 will get done, and…
61 00:05:53.650 ⇒ 00:05:56.269 Amber Lin: I’ll… I can move these one, these.
62 00:05:56.270 ⇒ 00:06:00.509 Uttam Kumaran: That transaction I’ve sent to Perry to review, so it’s…
63 00:06:01.500 ⇒ 00:06:02.539 Uttam Kumaran: right now.
64 00:06:04.240 ⇒ 00:06:11.600 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’ve not… Circle back on the stock beam problem.
65 00:06:13.080 ⇒ 00:06:13.710 Amber Lin: Okay.
66 00:06:14.360 ⇒ 00:06:20.359 Amber Lin: And then… is Emily, on these, I suppose these historical ones will get…
67 00:06:20.360 ⇒ 00:06:24.449 Emily Giant: All of those won’t get done, everything below it will.
68 00:06:26.280 ⇒ 00:06:31.689 Amber Lin: Okay. And then for Demlade, which ones would we need to move out?
69 00:06:33.550 ⇒ 00:06:38.990 Demilade Agboola: I think the one that potentially might will be 259.
70 00:06:44.290 ⇒ 00:06:50.920 Demilade Agboola: I think… I think we should be able to get a high-level daily summary table.
71 00:06:51.630 ⇒ 00:07:03.730 Demilade Agboola: But that’s depending on, like, the other things coming through. So, potentially, I think… let’s put this… let’s also put, like, 262 in the backlog. We might be able to get to it, but I’m not sure yet.
72 00:07:06.070 ⇒ 00:07:06.930 Amber Lin: Okay.
73 00:07:08.010 ⇒ 00:07:15.019 Amber Lin: I want to also write an update. How much does,
74 00:07:15.170 ⇒ 00:07:25.620 Amber Lin: Zach and Alex know about what we have been doing ad hoc. Can I get an update from you guys so, we can tell them what we have been working on?
75 00:07:27.310 ⇒ 00:07:29.969 Emily Giant: I’d say they’re pretty briefed, but…
76 00:07:29.970 ⇒ 00:07:34.659 Amber Lin: Utom, I know you’ve had some conversations with Alex. I think what they don’t know is, like.
77 00:07:34.810 ⇒ 00:07:36.450 Emily Giant: the cause?
78 00:07:36.670 ⇒ 00:07:45.370 Emily Giant: I’m not sure that we know the full cause of, like, the Looker failures, at least.
79 00:07:50.180 ⇒ 00:07:53.529 Amber Lin: What other stuff have we been fixing?
80 00:07:54.350 ⇒ 00:07:57.629 Uttam Kumaran: It’s been, like, the looker issues and, like.
81 00:07:58.120 ⇒ 00:08:00.720 Uttam Kumaran: A lot of, like, deprecation, basically.
82 00:08:02.790 ⇒ 00:08:11.070 Demilade Agboola: And also just, like, some Redshift admin stuff as it relates to, like, the… Connections.
83 00:08:14.070 ⇒ 00:08:14.940 Amber Lin: Okay.
84 00:08:15.630 ⇒ 00:08:19.770 Amber Lin: Sounds good.
85 00:08:20.400 ⇒ 00:08:23.389 Amber Lin: How much time have you guys been spending so far?
86 00:08:24.480 ⇒ 00:08:28.909 Uttam Kumaran: I’ve been tracking my hours in Clockify.
87 00:08:28.910 ⇒ 00:08:29.780 Amber Lin: Oh, okay.
88 00:08:29.810 ⇒ 00:08:30.910 Uttam Kumaran: Awesome.
89 00:08:31.020 ⇒ 00:08:33.970 Amber Lin: Sounds good. Guess that’s all I need.
90 00:08:34.470 ⇒ 00:08:35.309 Amber Lin: Alright.
91 00:08:35.720 ⇒ 00:08:44.879 Amber Lin: That’s good, tomorrow, we have grooming. Do we still want to have grooming?
92 00:08:45.970 ⇒ 00:08:49.589 Amber Lin: Because most of these, we will have the same tickets.
93 00:08:49.890 ⇒ 00:08:51.550 Amber Lin: That’s what we did here.
94 00:08:54.270 ⇒ 00:08:57.370 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t feel like it’s really necessary.
95 00:08:57.370 ⇒ 00:08:58.510 Amber Lin: Yeah, agreed.
96 00:08:58.930 ⇒ 00:09:02.209 Amber Lin: Because we all have… these are already groomed, so…
97 00:09:02.900 ⇒ 00:09:06.710 Amber Lin: You should be good. Cancel that one.
98 00:09:08.470 ⇒ 00:09:12.180 Amber Lin: Mmm… And then…
99 00:09:13.770 ⇒ 00:09:18.810 Amber Lin: I think it’s safe if we skip CNF tomorrow and then meet on Friday, is that good with everybody?
100 00:09:19.110 ⇒ 00:09:22.280 Emily Giant: Yeah, that sounds good to me. I think we all need time.
101 00:09:23.600 ⇒ 00:09:24.670 Amber Lin: Sounds good.
102 00:09:25.250 ⇒ 00:09:29.530 Amber Lin: Alright, that’s all. Anything else you guys want to talk about?
103 00:09:30.730 ⇒ 00:09:31.949 Demilade Agboola: Nothing from me.
104 00:09:32.380 ⇒ 00:09:32.720 Amber Lin: Okay.
105 00:09:32.720 ⇒ 00:09:33.370 Emily Giant: So…
106 00:09:33.720 ⇒ 00:09:35.250 Amber Lin: Alright, sounds good.
107 00:09:35.520 ⇒ 00:09:36.260 Emily Giant: Thanks, everyone.
108 00:09:36.260 ⇒ 00:09:37.480 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks, everyone.
109 00:09:37.690 ⇒ 00:09:38.560 Amber Lin: Right?