Project Meeting 2022 April

Meeting Goal

Convene Data Gen contributors to discuss community contributions, upcoming events, and project leadership.

April 6, 3 PM ET AMER

Patrick M, Samantha S (recording), Junette T, Jennifer C, Eileen K, Cori O, Jess L, Jung M, Aaron C, Emily H, Paul P

The deck is very well prepared, very well designed for beginners
Junette is an excellent presenter. Clear, thoughtful, precise
Encouraging tone
Useful "roadmap" (now we've done this, next we're going to do this)
Timing was excellent
Attendance was 177, with 165+ staying for the full event
Cori's VP and Sam's friends said the training was excellent
FAQ: What does Snowfakery not do? Data masking
50% partners, 40% customers, 10% staff
98% customer satisfaction
cci task run snowfakery is faster for large batches. could load 10,000 to show the capability. Paul's bias is scale as a performance engineer.
there are slightly different considerations for snowfakery commands vs cci commands
new idea - cci command with a dry run option
feedback - when the slides have links, try to post in the chat
first time doing a webinar

Snowfakery 3.0 introduced ability to update records
upsert functionality is coming soon (safe harbor)
Snowfakery now handles decimals better (ie longitude and latitude) - talk to Paul if you need to learn more about this
random references to nicknames (FAQ!!!)
in the past, you can traverse object relationships unless you are using random reference. Soon this will work for random references too (safe harbor)

we need to be able to set some general parameters for what we hope to achieve

what are our major workstreams? (1) snowfakery recipes (2) faker providers (3) Fake ETL tool reviews
what is the categorization framework for recipes (1) getting started: no macros, no include, no providers (2) scenario driven recipe: useful for product demos, unlikely to be reproduced (3) component recipes: more complicated features, designed for modular reproducibility
attendees
breakout groups (7)
marketing
prep intro slides: Eileen
prep issues: Recipe workstream (Jennifer C)
vols for beginner Snowfakery room
action item: move tool comparison into issues