Right before Christmas QUADS 2.1.6 has arrived. This is a performance, features and bug fix release built on our landmark 2.1 series architecture. We’re excited to scoot down the chimney and deliver a mix of admin and user-facing improvements before a well-deserved break after a busy year.
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QUADS 2.1.5 is Released!
Just in time for Thanksgiving, QUADS 2.1.5 is a bug fix, performance improvement and minor feature release built on our landmark 2.1 series architecture. We’re proud to roll in a mix of user-facing and back-end friendly improvements after battle-testing 2.1 in demanding production environments.
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QUADS 2.1 is Released!
A few weeks ahead of schedule, QUADS 2.1 brings immense improvement and simplicity to QUADS design by removing our WordPress component entirely and serving all automated wiki/inventory/visuals natively via quads-web
Simplifying QUADS Architecture in 2.1
Big design improvements are coming in QUADS 2.1 by completely removing our WordPress component and bringing everything directly back to Flask / quads-web. This greatly reduces our design complexity and adds a plethora of foundational improvements for future features.
QUADS 2.0.5 is Released!
With Summer behind us and Autumn on the way we’ve got a new bug-fix and minor feature release of the QUADS 2.x series. This release is a bug-fix and minor feature release that also ensures compatibility with the latest versions of the Flask framework.
QUADS 2.0 is Here!
🍻 Just in time for Summer, QUADS 2.0 is here after a year of concurrent development alongside the 1.1 series. QUADS 2.0 is a major evolution in the architecture and design of QUADS, featuring the complete move from CherryPy to Flask, MongoDB to SQLAlchemy/Postgresql and incorporating our long-awaited APIv3. Continue reading “QUADS 2.0 is Here!”
QUADS 1.1.8 is Released!
🎃 This is an extra spooky QUADS release and likely the last ™️ of the 1.1 series before the next-generation 2.0 series of QUADS . While we’ll provide critical bugfixes for the 1.1 series in the future, new features will be focused on the 2.0 series which is well underway. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.8 is Released!”
QUADS 1.1.7 is Released!
Following hot on the heels of Valentine’s day, love is in the air with QUADS 1.1.7. Packing in over a years’ worth of development this is a major feature and bugfix release and the last of the 1.1 series as we work hard towards QUADS 2.0. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.7 is Released!”
The Curious Case of the CPU Eating Gunicorn

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.
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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!”