Guild Launch News
Rapid Raid Performance Improvements
After 5 years and millions of raid events later Rapid Raid has begun to show some slowness in certain reports for some of the sites that use this functionality most heavily. The good news is that we have a solution and we will be implementing it over the next 3-4 weeks.
Over the next 3-4 weeks we will be making changes to Rapid Raid to improve performance. These changes should not be visible, but will instead amount to faster load times and better general responsiveness. Though, we hope you only notice faster load times there is a possibility for error. So, we wanted to let you know of these changes well ahead of time and to also assure you that the changes we are making are only for reporting and for visual display.
Given the impact of massive changes to raid data we decided to implement these changes slowly and in a targeted manner. We are *not* changing the way the underlying data is stored. What we are changing is how the data is displayed for reporting purposes. We are moving the calculated data into special tables that will be much faster to load.
We will be layering these changes in slowly and purposefully over the next few weeks. The first update will be to the Attendance By Event table on the Character DKP page. We chose this area as the first change because it is "out of the way" and relatively lightly used, but displays a key piece of data that is also displayed in other reports.
After we have verified the changes in this area we will begin changing other reports to use the same pre-calculated data. We appreciate your assistance in tracking down any issues and we appreciate your understanding while we make these important changes.
-Stephen
Over the next 3-4 weeks we will be making changes to Rapid Raid to improve performance. These changes should not be visible, but will instead amount to faster load times and better general responsiveness. Though, we hope you only notice faster load times there is a possibility for error. So, we wanted to let you know of these changes well ahead of time and to also assure you that the changes we are making are only for reporting and for visual display.
Given the impact of massive changes to raid data we decided to implement these changes slowly and in a targeted manner. We are *not* changing the way the underlying data is stored. What we are changing is how the data is displayed for reporting purposes. We are moving the calculated data into special tables that will be much faster to load.
We will be layering these changes in slowly and purposefully over the next few weeks. The first update will be to the Attendance By Event table on the Character DKP page. We chose this area as the first change because it is "out of the way" and relatively lightly used, but displays a key piece of data that is also displayed in other reports.
After we have verified the changes in this area we will begin changing other reports to use the same pre-calculated data. We appreciate your assistance in tracking down any issues and we appreciate your understanding while we make these important changes.
-Stephen