Meeting Title: US x BF | Planning & Retro Date: 2025-11-10 Meeting participants: Emily Giant, Uttam Kumaran, Amber Lin, Awaish Kumar, Demilade Agboola
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1 00:02:40.350 ⇒ 00:02:41.210 Uttam Kumaran: Hello?
2 00:02:41.680 ⇒ 00:02:44.199 Amber Lin: Sorry, we’re a little bit late.
3 00:02:44.360 ⇒ 00:02:46.410 Emily Giant: It’s okay. How’s everyone doing?
4 00:02:46.740 ⇒ 00:02:47.240 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
5 00:02:47.240 ⇒ 00:02:54.070 Amber Lin: I saw the message earlier, while we’re in another meeting. I was like, oh no, and then I saw that we found a fix.
6 00:02:54.070 ⇒ 00:03:02.470 Emily Giant: Yeah, PK had deployed a derived table, and one of the views in Looker already had the same name, and it.
7 00:03:02.470 ⇒ 00:03:02.790 Amber Lin: Hmm.
8 00:03:02.790 ⇒ 00:03:15.629 Emily Giant: it crashed it, so all I had to do was change the name, and it was fine. But I don’t know how he didn’t get that error during testing. I’ll make sure to connect with him and make sure he’s doing, like, all the proper error testing before deploying anything.
9 00:03:17.250 ⇒ 00:03:23.919 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, and also, like, I think, I guess my other… we could also start reviewing Looker PRs.
10 00:03:24.140 ⇒ 00:03:25.279 Uttam Kumaran: As a group.
11 00:03:25.430 ⇒ 00:03:29.779 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, like, that’s another thing we could start to do.
12 00:03:30.210 ⇒ 00:03:44.840 Emily Giant: Yeah, that’s fine. Like, if it’s a simple thing, like, that I know won’t crash the system, I won’t make a deal of it, but especially with PK, I should put some restrictions on to make sure that, since he’s, like, newish to LookML,
13 00:03:45.040 ⇒ 00:03:48.700 Emily Giant: That nothing should go through without, like, at least.
14 00:03:48.700 ⇒ 00:03:56.959 Uttam Kumaran: error checking with… Yeah, exactly. Yeah, one thing I’ll… one thing I’ll do is I’ll create a ticket so that we just put some code owners on Looker.
15 00:03:56.960 ⇒ 00:03:57.570 Emily Giant: Yeah.
16 00:03:57.570 ⇒ 00:04:01.220 Uttam Kumaran: At least one of us should approve, and yeah, it’s…
17 00:04:01.220 ⇒ 00:04:02.110 Emily Giant: Yeah.
18 00:04:02.110 ⇒ 00:04:04.790 Uttam Kumaran: That’s… It’s getting better, so, okay.
19 00:04:04.790 ⇒ 00:04:13.299 Emily Giant: It makes me feel good that I had, like, 9 people tell me within 2 minutes that Looker was down. I’m like, oh, people are using Looker. That’s great.
20 00:04:13.530 ⇒ 00:04:18.260 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you want them… yeah, you just… I guess any news is good news, maybe.
21 00:04:18.269 ⇒ 00:04:24.429 Emily Giant: Yeah, I guess I… I’ve got a way of turning it, turning it our way, so…
22 00:04:24.950 ⇒ 00:04:26.320 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
23 00:04:27.060 ⇒ 00:04:37.840 Uttam Kumaran: Great. Okay, so maybe let’s talk a little bit about, this week. So, kind of a couple things on the DE and then sort of, like, forward planning side, so…
24 00:04:38.270 ⇒ 00:04:53.779 Uttam Kumaran: We’re, we’re gonna start to, I think we’re making better progress on staging and, like, issues. I still don’t like the amount of issues that are happening, so kind of two things that I’ve sort of prescribed
25 00:04:53.910 ⇒ 00:05:07.070 Uttam Kumaran: For Awash, I sound like a doctor, but two things I prescribed for Awash to try this week is, one, if we can get staging in a really good place, then I would like us to consider
26 00:05:07.220 ⇒ 00:05:12.160 Uttam Kumaran: having the staging PR run as a blocking step.
27 00:05:12.950 ⇒ 00:05:26.789 Uttam Kumaran: And ultimately, that should prevent any issues to getting production. What the risk there is, is that staging needs to run within a reasonable amount of time. Okay. You know, and so we can, as a crew, trust that
28 00:05:26.910 ⇒ 00:05:34.799 Uttam Kumaran: when we ship a PR, we can actually have it run through that process, and then know that if it makes it into prod, it’s fine.
29 00:05:34.800 ⇒ 00:05:43.800 Emily Giant: Yeah. I would like us to do that, I think that’ll save us all a bunch of headache. Of course, like, in extenuating circumstances, we can force merge, but…
30 00:05:43.890 ⇒ 00:05:47.850 Uttam Kumaran: I just want to, like, really, really try as a group to do that.
31 00:05:48.190 ⇒ 00:06:06.040 Uttam Kumaran: The second piece is, I still think there are Metaplane tweaks that we can make, so we’re going to be meeting tomorrow as a crew internally to kind of discuss that, because we’re actually running Metaplane for a few clients, and just want to make sure that we align,
32 00:06:06.290 ⇒ 00:06:12.859 Uttam Kumaran: What, like, what things we’re tracking, and how do we continue to be the first people to get notified when there’s an issue?
33 00:06:13.310 ⇒ 00:06:21.079 Uttam Kumaran: So, not notified when there are, like, false positives, so… That’s an item there.
34 00:06:22.640 ⇒ 00:06:30.770 Uttam Kumaran: And then, the other item that we’ll be talking about this week is we’ll be putting together a little bit of a roadmap and discovery on…
35 00:06:31.000 ⇒ 00:06:36.060 Uttam Kumaran: The shipping data and the forecast data, so that would probably end up being…
36 00:06:36.260 ⇒ 00:06:41.660 Uttam Kumaran: tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday when I spend some time on that, but, yeah.
37 00:06:42.910 ⇒ 00:06:47.679 Emily Giant: Yeah, that sounds good. I think on my list is just making sure that, like,
38 00:06:47.810 ⇒ 00:06:53.580 Emily Giant: for the revenue mart, that the pieces, the fields that aren’t currently in
39 00:06:53.780 ⇒ 00:07:03.060 Emily Giant: in the model are accessible in the model, like delivery date, etc. And then just replacing
40 00:07:03.100 ⇒ 00:07:14.690 Emily Giant: Like, working on replacing the revenue dashboard so that, like, if there are fields that we’re not aware of that aren’t in the model that need to be added, that we’ve got a good running list of those to work with.
41 00:07:16.220 ⇒ 00:07:16.970 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
42 00:07:18.770 ⇒ 00:07:25.200 Emily Giant: But yeah, like, the… the code looks good, it’s just that it’s, the fields are still somewhat limited.
43 00:07:25.320 ⇒ 00:07:42.819 Emily Giant: And I am working on that. I did, like, a shipping staging model on Friday that we can use if I can’t find all of that data in Shopify. It’s like a fallback, but the more Kivo tables we can turn off indefinitely, the better.
44 00:07:43.920 ⇒ 00:07:49.300 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I wonder if this week we should do a larger working session on Looker, I don’t know, maybe…
45 00:07:49.960 ⇒ 00:07:54.090 Uttam Kumaran: It’s mainly gonna be, yeah, I guess, what do you think away from the latte are, like.
46 00:07:54.870 ⇒ 00:08:00.519 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, trying to see, like, how we can make a big dent in that this week.
47 00:08:05.050 ⇒ 00:08:06.910 Demilade Agboola: I mean, that works for me.
48 00:08:09.640 ⇒ 00:08:17.390 Awaish Kumar: Like, the session to understand the… like, the…
49 00:08:17.720 ⇒ 00:08:20.770 Uttam Kumaran: Old versus new tables and schemas, or what?
50 00:08:22.480 ⇒ 00:08:26.389 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, and also just doing the migration. Like, just actually…
51 00:08:26.630 ⇒ 00:08:29.239 Uttam Kumaran: Adjusting it, and, like, seeing what breaks.
52 00:08:29.540 ⇒ 00:08:30.080 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I thought.
53 00:08:30.080 ⇒ 00:08:30.600 Awaish Kumar: Oh.
54 00:08:30.600 ⇒ 00:08:33.619 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like we may need to do that after hours.
55 00:08:34.510 ⇒ 00:08:35.150 Emily Giant: Yeah.
56 00:08:35.150 ⇒ 00:08:35.740 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
57 00:08:39.740 ⇒ 00:08:40.960 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, okay.
58 00:08:45.940 ⇒ 00:08:47.130 Uttam Kumaran: Do we think, like.
59 00:08:47.490 ⇒ 00:08:57.740 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I would like us to do sort of these types of looker changes in the afternoons. Like, maybe we could do tomorrow evening or Wednesday evening.
60 00:08:58.140 ⇒ 00:09:01.500 Uttam Kumaran: And whoever’s available can join, and I’d like to sort of just, like.
61 00:09:03.280 ⇒ 00:09:08.889 Uttam Kumaran: Make the cuts and try to transition, and then we could push changes as we need to make that happen.
62 00:09:11.760 ⇒ 00:09:19.540 Emily Giant: Yeah, that sounds good to me. Tomorrow would be best… For my schedule, but… Of course, I’ll…
63 00:09:19.690 ⇒ 00:09:24.359 Emily Giant: Defer to y’all, because your availability is… and time zones are so different than mine.
64 00:09:25.000 ⇒ 00:09:25.690 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
65 00:09:26.760 ⇒ 00:09:28.499 Demilade Agboola: I think tomorrow should be fine as well.
66 00:09:28.820 ⇒ 00:09:29.830 Awaish Kumar: I’m okay.
67 00:09:30.010 ⇒ 00:09:31.269 Awaish Kumar: When tomorrow is.
68 00:09:31.640 ⇒ 00:09:32.300 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
69 00:09:33.270 ⇒ 00:09:36.349 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, so I’ll go ahead and just block off time.
70 00:09:36.600 ⇒ 00:09:41.649 Uttam Kumaran: Tomorrow afternoon, we can do it till then. Tomorrow at, like, 30 evening-ish, we could do that.
71 00:09:47.660 ⇒ 00:09:54.950 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, anything, else.
72 00:09:56.780 ⇒ 00:10:02.810 Uttam Kumaran: For this week. I guess, Awas, you’re still working on North Beam stuff, so I know you worked with Alex on that.
73 00:10:04.810 ⇒ 00:10:12.370 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, I… Kind of only stuck on… on making it automated, otherwise, like, model is ready, and…
74 00:10:12.930 ⇒ 00:10:14.970 Awaish Kumar: Okay. Like, everything is ready.
75 00:10:16.950 ⇒ 00:10:21.199 Uttam Kumaran: Do we know, like, how that ends up flowing into Looker, or… or Kristen’s team? Like, is that…
76 00:10:21.760 ⇒ 00:10:26.369 Awaish Kumar: So it will… yeah, it will… it will be a field in the effect orders.
77 00:10:27.270 ⇒ 00:10:29.460 Awaish Kumar: And then anybody can use it from there.
78 00:10:32.710 ⇒ 00:10:33.440 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
79 00:10:34.800 ⇒ 00:10:41.440 Awaish Kumar: Like, right now, we have a… field called UTM… Parameter, source, and fact orders.
80 00:10:41.750 ⇒ 00:10:44.370 Awaish Kumar: Like, which is coming from Shopify.
81 00:10:44.880 ⇒ 00:10:48.219 Awaish Kumar: Similarly, we have a few… two more fields from
82 00:10:49.630 ⇒ 00:10:51.590 Awaish Kumar: theme, which is… which are, like.
83 00:10:51.710 ⇒ 00:10:55.780 Awaish Kumar: One is called, Platform, which is basically the exact…
84 00:10:56.110 ⇒ 00:10:59.970 Awaish Kumar: name of the platform, like Google or Facebook or whatever it is.
85 00:11:00.310 ⇒ 00:11:04.979 Awaish Kumar: And the second thing is category. I think it is something which,
86 00:11:05.300 ⇒ 00:11:10.119 Awaish Kumar: PK showed me last time with that macro that we were trying to create.
87 00:11:10.910 ⇒ 00:11:14.859 Awaish Kumar: Like, joining those channels into some categories.
88 00:11:15.260 ⇒ 00:11:15.970 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
89 00:11:20.010 ⇒ 00:11:21.890 Emily Giant: Sounds pretty straightforward.
90 00:11:22.000 ⇒ 00:11:22.820 Emily Giant: That’s good.
91 00:11:24.180 ⇒ 00:11:33.850 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Yeah, is there any other, like, core reporting Tweaks we want to do?
92 00:11:34.290 ⇒ 00:11:45.879 Emily Giant: Yeah, I’m working on building a subscription forecasting model. Okay. That was the other big one that isn’t live. It’s in the branch I’m working on now, and it’s just, like, slow, and…
93 00:11:45.880 ⇒ 00:11:46.460 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
94 00:11:46.460 ⇒ 00:11:49.350 Emily Giant: weird, but I should hopefully have it done today.
95 00:11:49.350 ⇒ 00:11:53.159 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, if you send it to me, I can review and maybe get some pointers, too.
96 00:11:53.160 ⇒ 00:11:54.569 Emily Giant: Yeah, that’d be great.
97 00:11:54.610 ⇒ 00:11:56.490 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Great.
98 00:11:57.910 ⇒ 00:12:04.599 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, so yeah, I think maybe we can meet tomorrow afternoon, we make a big dent in Looker, we’ll probably leave that meeting with, like.
99 00:12:05.090 ⇒ 00:12:07.239 Uttam Kumaran: The rest of the roadmap for the week.
100 00:12:07.620 ⇒ 00:12:10.970 Uttam Kumaran: In terms of just, like, what else we need to close out in Looker.
101 00:12:13.400 ⇒ 00:12:23.710 Uttam Kumaran: And yeah, I think that’s a… probably a good path, and yeah, any sort of modeling changes this week that I can help review, let’s do it. And then, yeah, Wish, I’ll probably just be poking on you to just make sure that
102 00:12:23.860 ⇒ 00:12:31.040 Uttam Kumaran: staging and stuff is stable. I would really like us to see that happen, you know, this month.
103 00:12:31.150 ⇒ 00:12:33.850 Uttam Kumaran: So, yeah, that’d be great.
104 00:12:36.600 ⇒ 00:12:38.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Cool.
105 00:12:38.670 ⇒ 00:12:39.260 Emily Giant: Alright.
106 00:12:39.260 ⇒ 00:12:42.919 Uttam Kumaran: Perfect. Alright, that’s it. I guess I’ll talk to everyone later.
107 00:12:42.920 ⇒ 00:12:45.539 Emily Giant: Sounds good. Talk to you soon. Bye. Bye.
108 00:12:45.930 ⇒ 00:12:47.069 Demilade Agboola: Thank you, bye.