Release 0.17
UI & User Experience
UI & User Experience - 1 item delivered in v0.17
What Was Delivered
- Staging Environment Cost Analysis Provide a cost analysis on the following options for staging environments:
- AWS Production Environment Replicated to provide the Staging Environment. Pros: Easy to implement, falls in line with standard enterprise platform practices; no future changes required. Cons: Expensive, probably overkill for the stage that we’re in now. Cost: Cost will increase Infrastructure expenditure to 2x the current total spend.
- AWS Production Environment Replicated as Staging Envirnoment, but on lower spec instances. Pros: Easy to implement, Cons: Will need to be adjusted in the future to the enterprise solution. not a 1:1 representation of prod environment; some issues may occur on prod Cost: Cost will increase Infrastructure expenditure to 1.5x the current total spend.
- AWS Staging Site Hosted on the same EC2 Instance as Production Environment; database is hosted on a separate RDS. Pros: Easy to implement; Cons: Resources are going to be shared with Prod, in the event that issues occur, Cost: Cost will increase RDS expenditure to 1.5x.
- Do not create a Staging Environment. Instead, create a Testing Environment on VULTR instead. Approvals will be handled this way instead. Pros: Fixed cost and cheaper solution. Cons: Limited CI/CD opportunities. Cost: Fixed Cost. TBA
Impact
Improved platform usability and interface consistency, reducing friction in daily operations.