Today we are implementing a performance tuning change to optimize the connection pool between the Communities application and its back-end database. The change should solve an issue we are seeing with connection timeouts, and improve throughput to the database.
In parallel, we developed a modification to a data structure in the communities cache that improves the performance of that cache. We are testing it under load on a stage environment tonight, and assuming it passes the load test, it will go live on Wednesday.
On the features front, we are finishing development and testing of the following features (which are detailed in Features in the pipeline):
- Threaded display mode for discussions
- View all posts from a user
- Set posts per page
- Search in this community
- Legibility tweaks
In addition, we identified a fix to the rich text editor that we believe will solve the loading issues that some of you are seeing. I'll provide more details after we've tested the fix.
