The infrastructure deployment time machine
We decided to take a first try hands-on approach following the future QUADS roadmap and re-architect our legacy landing/requests portal application, previously a trusty LAMP stack, into a completely rewritten Flask / SQLAlchemy / Gunicorn / Nginx next-gen platform. What worked in Dev/Stage however had serious problems in production with CPU bottlenecks – this is our journey.
Continue reading “The Curious Case of the CPU Eating Gunicorn”
Just before Spring, QUADS version 1.1.6 arrives as a mostly bug-fix, refactor and feature release. We’ve packed almost 8 months of development into 1.1.6 with around 14x new features and around 19x bug fixes. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.6 Has Arrived!”
With Summer fast approaching we’re happy to release our 11th and latest version of QUADS – 1.1.5. In this release we’ve added a new JIRA library, functionality for managing decommissioning of systems and a slew of other features and fixes. Check out the release on Github for full information. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.5 is Released!”
Just in time for Turkey Day, QUADS 1.1.4 is a major feature enhancement and bug fix release from the landmark 1.1 series. Culminating over 7months of development with 25x new features and many bug fixes, come see what’s new! Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.4 is Released!”
Just in time for the Easter Bunny, QUADS 1.1.3 brings about 3 months of bug fixes and a few enhancements to bear, building on the new 1.1 gaúcho series. Read more about the major enhancements and fixes below.
A new year, a new QUADS! After almost three months of development we’re happy to release version 1.1.2. This includes some major features like reporting and other enhancements and bug fixes. Building on the strong foundation of the 1.1 series we include around 11 x enhancements and 17 x fixes to QUADS and Badfish. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.2 is Released!”
A month after the landmark 1.1.0 release we’re happy to release version 1.1.1. This is a minor enhancement and bug fix release with approximately 17 x code patches since 1.1.0. This also coincidentally marks the 3rd anniversary of the QUADS project!. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.1 is Released!”
After over 7 months of development since 1.0.2 and massive architectural, design, and re-factoring overhauls we’re proud to announce the next-generation QUADS 1.1.0 codenamed gaúcho. A monumental amount of enhancements, fixes and redesign efforts going back over a year form the foundation of the 1.1 series. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.0 is Released!”
With less than 3 months for the retirement of Python 2.7 and with the much required QUADS migration to Python 3, we could not miss the opportunity to try out the now native asyncio framework and identify workflows where we could speed things up.
We’ve revamped our QUADS Jenkins CI to use Docker containers and instantiate a full QUADS stack (wiki, wiki_db, quads, quads_db, nginx) for every patchset committed to Gerrit code review. Below is a not-so-artistic diagram of how it all works. Continue reading “QUADS CI is Revamped”
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