Improvement
Patch notes · June 20
The complete notes for this update.
Improvements
- Our quest to slay the beast of slowdowns and outages continues. We have a series of updates that we’re going to deploy today to help us defeat the beast. It’s possible that as we deploy these changes, Prod and Beta could see temporary slowdowns or outages. If we see any signs that the updates are unsuccessful, we’ll quickly roll back to our stable release. For Production, we’re making the following changes:
- Enabling DataDog (for more detailed observability into our server health and performance)
- Turning off tracing (replaced by DataDog)
- Adding additional caching to queries on the Discover page
- Reducing the volume of calls made when autosaving edits to Scenarios For Beta, we have the most exciting change—Testing AWS servers to replace our Heroku servers. For those of you on Beta, we would LOVE for you to really test the limits of this new setup. This is a significant upgrade, so we want to make sure we root out any possible issues with this setup before we direct production traffic to AWS. If successful, we expect this change to give us greater scalability and observability for our servers. Note: We are still leaving the Content carousels off on the Home Page for now. The carousels continue to be a source of major load on our servers. We expect to re-enable them (and do further optimizations) after we shift production traffic to AWS. Thanks for everyone’s patience and support as we continue to improve our ability to support current and future AI Dungeon traffic.