Apologies for the late results, given the late start to the quiz this week. Hopefully with Mark’s return next week things shall return to a normal schedule - hoping he’s had plenty of time to think up some new questions for you all!
Based on the feedback on Twitter and what some Safers have messaged me, I think this was a fairly easy week. But here are the answers, in case you didn’t get all of the questions right.
Mark actually made this week's quiz questions, so perhaps if he wants to take vacation again this summer I’ll have a go at making them a little tougher.
So, did you manage to beat @trentatsafe?Answers
1 What object on FME Server stores workspaces, data, transformers, formats and templates?
Repository
Resources Folder
User Library
Workspace Vault
The Safe Safe
Straight from the FME Server documentation:
Repositories are used to store groups of related items that have been published to FME Server (similar to directories). Items such as workspaces, source data, custom formats, custom transformers, and templates can be published to a repository.
2. An early forerunner to FME Server was called what?
DataDirect
FMEDirect
ClipZipShipDirect
SpatialDirect
OneFMEDirection
http://www.spatialdirect.com/" target="_blank">Spatial Direct was honestly well before my time, so I don’t have too much to say about it. Craig Vernon remembers selling it in 2000 when it first came out (could have been 1999) and it became FME Server in 2008. If you’re wondering what Spatial Direct looked like, here's a diagram:
We've come a long way...
3. In FME terms, what does RTC stand for?
Remote Terminal Capacity
Run Til Cancelled
Real-Time Core
Response To Client
Relative Transformer Constitution
RTC workspaces are useful if you have streaming transformers (like the WebsocketReceiver) that need to always be running in order to process data streams. If RTC is enabled, and the workspace somehow gets terminated by the system, FME Server will start the workspace running again. This will continue until a user manually cancels the job.
A future release of FME Server will make working with data stream workflows much nicer (stay tuned!).
4. Many of our webinars and demos for FME Server use a specific FME Cloud server set up by Safe. What is it called?
yellowriver
greenearth
whitecloud
bluesky
redflame
Bluesky is the name of our internal FME Cloud, which gets used so often our job count is into the 119,000s!
You would be forgiven if you got this wrong though, for World Tours or some webinars we spin up different FME Cloud instances which we can keep ‘cleaner’ and destroy once the webinar is over.
We can also use bluesky’s less popular cousin, blueocean, which is deployed using kubernetes.
5. The FME Server Core communicates with the FME Server Data via JDBC over which TCP/IP port?
80
6379
7073
7082
8080
This question might be a tough one if you’re not familiar with installing FME Server or troubleshooting the backend database. You can see the port number in our FME Server architecture diagram:
6. One FME Server sample workspace returns a real-time earthquake dataset in KML, extruded in 3D according to severity. We’re thinking of changing it. Why?
The JSON feed that it is based on is no longer active
It’s only ever been run 2 times on our demo servers
KML Network Links are no longer supported in FME
We’re changing to a database that updates more regularly
The workspace name contains a NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) word
Before Automations came out I think people were aware of the unfortunate naming of this workspace. However, the limited spacing for words on Automations nodes highlighted the issue so I now actively avoid using this workspace for customer demos or webinars.
Ultimately, we decided not to change anything with the workspace name. One day it'd be nice to have a new set of demos.
Scores
Let’s see the general quiz info and scores:
Quiz Week: 32
Number of Entries: 39
Best Score: 6
Worst Score: 0
Average Score: 4.05
Perfect Scores: 9
Easiest Question: 5 (31)
Hardest Question: 6 (16)
This is a high weekly score!
The perfect scorers this week are:
@redgeographics @jonas_nelson @jelle @kieranmg @srg @Sid @sipsysigh @cfvonner @erik_jan
Trent got a score of 3, so let’s see how everyone did:
Beat Trent: 24Equalled Trent: 8Were beaten by Trent: 7
The overall score is now:
Users ? Safers ?
(I’m not sure how Mark calculates this, so I will wait for next week. I don't think the Safers won this week though)
Here’s your league table:
And I’m not sure how @mark2atsafe calculates the Safer league table, so another one we’ll have to wait for.
Thanks for having me as your temporary quizmaster!