Tech Radar 17

[gratipay-bot]

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Docs

http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/sweep-the-radar

Mission

The mission of the tech team is to support the product team in solving problems in the market.

Scope

• dev
• ops
• hosting
  • Heroku
  • Digital Ocean
  • AWS
• monitoring
  • Sentry
  • PagerDuty
  • UptimeRobot
  • Librato
• Payday
• https://github.com/gratipay/postgres.py
• https://github.com/gratipay/gip.rocks
• https://github.com/gratipay/honcho
• https://github.com/gratipay/environment.py

Roadmap

• stop using immutable ids as primary key (use id as primary key instead of username gratipay.com#835)
• other embarrassments

[chadwhitacre]

From Sentry:

Events quota exceeded

Hello!
We’re sending this email to let you know that 15.6% of all events sent by Gratipay (173 of 1,107 events sent from Aug 14 to 15) are being rejected due to rate limits.
Your organization's current Small plan allows recording up to 25 events per minute. To ensure that all of the events that you send are recorded, upgrade your subscription to a larger plan.

https://gratipay.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/5480

My hunch is that this is related to security testing. If this starts happening regularly we'll need to look into it. I don't think we need to take action now.

[ghost]

Maybe we can stop sending some events to sentry (are the 403's useful?) and use https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-github to more quickly react to the 500's and get less reports? I have no idea of how many reports of each kind we get.

[chadwhitacre]

@Nashe Our Sentry queue has been collapsed for quite some time now. 😞 Maybe once we are caught up on security we can work on Sentry next?

[ghost]

Sure!