[metrics-team] [network-team] Back from Montreal, anything I should do first?

Iain R. Learmonth irl at torproject.org
Tue Oct 17 21:15:28 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 17/10/17 20:14, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> Pyonionoo was a planned rewrite of Onionoo in Python that was never
> completed. At this point there's probably not much use in looking at the
> old, unfinished pyonionoo code. It's more the idea of rewriting Onionoo.

Ah ok, this makes more sense.

> However, I already mentioned to atagar that we might want to merge other
> services together with Onionoo or a rewritten Onionoo. Like, why not
> answer ExoneraTor queries using the same data? And if the database
> backend is powerful enough or can be easily distributed, why not use it
> to aggregate statistics for the visualizations on Tor Metrics?

This sounds cool.

> All in all, Pyonionoo is currently not a priority for the metrics team,
> which is also the reason why we're not doing it ourselves. But if atagar
> wants to use it as an experiment, I'd be curious to look at least at the
> database parts to see how he got it efficient enough to import new data
> every hour and the same time handle the number of responses that the
> current Onionoo handles.

Right, ok. That does indeed sound very interesting.

I'll also throw in here #22026, which it would be cool to have in
pyonionoo's architecture from the start.

To implement ExoneraTor, I guess we need to query data from the past
too, so it would be cool to have this querying of past data be
generalised to not just be searching for exit specific properties but
any known properties.

Thanks,
Iain.

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