Secondlife.Bio's Anniversary! (and Outage)
Hi Frens! So Secondlife.Bio has hit our first year anniversary! 🙌 And then, we had our very first outage ! 😢 So here's a breakdown (no pun intended..) of what went down (oh man..). Some background information on our services - we run on scalable services to host the community-handles open source software ( found here ) - This typically requires a hosting service as well as a database provider. The software is designed to use postgresql out of the box, so we went with a serverless database provider. Since Secondlife.Bio was super new, we were on their free plan as it had enough resources for us to run everything. We calculated that we would not have to upgrade until we hit close to 100 users. Great! All was working well. What we didn't realize was, Bluesky asks our system to look up who a handle belongs to like 5 times for each Bluesky lookup or refresh internally in their systems. Why 5 times? Well from what our investigations revealed, is probably they have t...