Platform Update - Release Notes - 06/02/16

[awc (Allen Crawford)]

@SBDOBRESCU

Wasn’t this the last announcement we got?

Nope.

Weekly Update from Alex - 06/24/16

Apologies for missing last week’s post while I was traveling. This week’s post will include details from both this week and last week. First, I want to talk about the downtime we had on Tuesday, June 14th. The downtime was caused by our weekly SmartApp and Device Handler deploy. These deploys are routine and normally go without incident, but last week’s deploy caused us to hit a limit on our caching layer which caused the login and device control problems some of you were seeing. The caching client we use has a limit of 1MB and the total size of our approved Device Handlers grew larger than 1MB causing our platform to behave erratically. We recognized the problem right away and were able to create a hotfix and deploy it as quickly as possible. Although this was unfortunate, the upside is…