Release Notes - AWS Platform Upgrade

I have updated the AWS platform Linkidex is running on. This is an infrastructure update that should’nt impact users.

Linkidex is currently running on AWS’s Elastic Beanstalk. You can think of platform updates as updating the operating system a computer is running. Doing this can be complicated, because certain things that work on one operating system may not work on another. For things like web applications, updates like these can have cascading effects where updating the operating system means we need to update thing 1. Updating thing 1 might mean thing 2, which depends on thing 1, has to be updated too, but thing 2 doesn’t work on your new operating system, so now you have to replace thing 1 and thing 2. And we don’t have thing 1 and thing 2, we have things 1 up to 999+.

So long story short it took awhile. But it is done now, and Linkidex is a little bit more secure because of it.

~ David