Meeting recap

Q4 platform priorities

Ninety minutes on what Platform builds next quarter. Three decisions, one deferral.

Thursday 4 September 2026 14:00–15:30 UTC 7 of 8 invited attended Chaired by Nadia Osei

Who owes what

Action items — 6 assigned, 2 closed. Dates are end of day.
Owner Action Due Status
Priya Raman Write the tracing rollout plan: one request id across four log systems. 11 Sep In progress
Marcus Feld Post the go/no-go once the error budget number is in. 8 Sep Not started
Dana Whitfield Send Northwind the SAML timeline and the assertions it covers. 5 Sep Done
Tomas Lindqvist Write down the conditions under which scoped SAML gets replaced. 18 Sep Not started
Nadia Osei Add ingest ownership to the 11 September agenda. 5 Sep Done
Sofia Kaur Cost the read-replica work for a Q1 re-proposal. 25 Sep Not started

What we decided

  1. 01

    Tracing takes the two engineers earmarked for read replicas.

    Why: two thirds of incident recovery goes on deciding which service is at fault; read replicas address a regional outage we have not had in four quarters.

    Owner: Priya RamanConsensus, no objections

  2. 02

    The ingest deploy freeze lifts on 8 September, gated on the error budget.

    Why: ingest has run clean for 36 hours and the budget is at 74%. Not under 70% on the morning of the 8th and the freeze holds another week.

    Owner: Marcus FeldGate: error budget < 70%

  3. 03

    Northwind gets scoped SAML, not the full identity roadmap.

    Why: the trial needs an answer Thursday; the full roadmap is a quarter of work. Scoped SAML is eight days and covers their review.

    Owner: Dana WhitfieldDissent recorded: Tomas Lindqvist

Deferred. Who owns ingest was raised twice and settled neither time. Moved to the architecture review on 11 September.

Still open

  • Who owns ingest once the freeze lifts?

    Three teams merged into it this quarter; none is on the pager. Needs: 11 September review.

  • Does scoped SAML block the November enterprise audit?

    Nobody had read the control list. Needs: Dana with Security by 12 September.