Meeting notes

Meetings with Constanze

2024-03-25

• Deployment (DevOps Group)
  • Test deployment for Azure Functions + DB
  • Structuring of resource groups (management groups, etc.)
    • Not everyone needs full access??
  • At least 2 different environments: prod/dev
• Monitoring (Niki, Michael Kurz)
  • How to handle, create Azure Dashboards
  • Demo function with monitoring
  • Items: Traffic, regions; scraper success, status; ...
• Budget
  • Runtime costs (Network traffic, monitoring, security, public IPs)
  • Vaults (certificates, secrets), domain
  • Cost per user - maybe extending to profitability using ads?
  • Utility tooling for our team (dev, ci/cd, monitoring)
• Architecture
  • Get rid of API management
  • Reconsider DB type (Cosmos Mongo/NoSQL, Object Storage) (Niki, Michaels)
  • Reconsider frontend deployment (Azure Static Web App vs CDN)
• Implementation
  • IDP: Azure AD very complex - maybe use GitHub or similar instead
  • Only consider 3 websites for scraping for now
  • Tools for local development
• Extensions
  • Advertising (estimate profit)
  • Use Pub/Sub for decoupling
  • Caching (to reduce db costs)
  • Flutter for multi-device development?
• Next steps
  • Schedule call when ready with deployment structure