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It has never been
easier to build software.

frontend

Move fast, break more.
Scale more, understand less.

This isn’t engineering.
This is maintenance.

It’s time to rethink
infrastructure.

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Infrastructure

should

know

what’s

wrong

and

help

you

fix

it.

For

good.

Infrastructure should...

Review

Solve

Prevent

A recent deployment (v2.6.1) added uncached timezone lookups

Service disrupted. Each request is causing exponential DB load increase, latency spikes, and frontend errors due to partial or failed responses.

13 findings

v2.6.1

Open

Know what’s wrong.

Cache timezone lookups

Reduces API and database load instantly.

Plan

#401

Awaiting review

Deployed

Run

Introduce fallback timezone

Quickly stabilizes the experience if caching rollout faces delays.

Plan

#401

Awaiting review

Deployed

Run

Help you fix it.

Strengthen deployment safeguards

Block deployments with uncached API calls and require load testing in CI for components that fetch user data on render.

Plan

#401

Awaiting review

Deployed

Run

Stop it from happening again.

Learning

from

your

decisions,

patterns,

and

goals.

While always learning.

Rollback changes and add a batch endpoint

@Shreyas did this for a previous incident where unbatched user profile fetches overloaded the API and it resolved the problem.

Plan

Run

Apply preload and caching safeguards for metadata endpoints tied to userID moving forward

Historically, any API call tied to userID is preloaded or deduped. [Github]

/timezone appears to fit that pattern.

Plan

Run

Goals updated

Your team prioritizes latency and keeping the UI responsive for this application, especially during high-traffic periods.

We’ll use that context when making future suggestions.