Hey everyone! 👋 You may have noticed that Finger-Ink has seemed even more response than usual in the last few months. Why? Read on!

New infrastructure

We recently migrated to a different hosting setup. It's still hosted on AWS, still managed via HealthcareBlocks, and still HIPAA compliant. But, it's given us more fine-grained control and visibility over our systems — and a chance for an upgrade...

Bigger servers

As part of the migration, we're now running on more powerful, faster servers. This means faster load times for pages, quicker syncing, and generally just a good time overall.

And more of them

We've also doubled-down: adding same-size backup servers, in different availability zones, on standby in case of any issues with our servers or our primary zone.

With smoother updates

We're always working on improving Finger-Ink. When we add new features, the final step is bundling them up in a release, then releasing this to the live server.

Prior to this migration, these releases could cause minor service degradation as the new code was booting up on the existing server.

With this new multi-server configuration, we never deploy to the current live server, and ensure that all servers are fully booted before we switch over.

All this means is that you'll hardly notice when we do future releases, unless we change the user interface in some way.

That's all for now, but I'll have another update for you shortly due to this one being a little delayed. 😅

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