| 5 Nov 2026 |
Telemetry runs in production only; Datadog is the single observability tool and Sentry is removed |
Sentry alongside Datadog |
One tool and one bill; no telemetry cost for non-production |
| 5 Nov 2026 |
Finder production logs are indexed lean (errors, 5xx, slow requests and a 5% sample, kept 30 days) and archived in full to S3 for a year |
Index everything; Cloudflare log export |
Cost |
| 4 Nov 2026 |
Finder production alerts are raised in Datadog |
CloudWatch alarms through chat |
One alerting surface |
| 4 Nov 2026 |
Start finder production with one of each component and scale to the specified size before load tests and launch |
Launch at full size |
Lower running cost until traffic arrives |
| 4 Nov 2026 |
Finder production reads its own PADI Travel change stream |
Share the staging stream |
A production reload never blocks staging |
| 3 Nov 2026 |
Finder compute on EC2 autoscaling groups |
Containers on Fargate (in the original specification) |
Same image, tooling and monitoring agent as development and staging |
| 3 Nov 2026 |
Search queries authenticate with IAM SigV4 |
Shared passwords |
No shared secrets; deploy smoke test proves a refused signature fails |
| 3 Nov 2026 |
Monitoring defined as code in Terraform |
Datadog CloudFormation types |
The CloudFormation types for dashboards and SLOs are no longer maintained |
| 3 Nov 2026 |
One NAT gateway and an S3 gateway endpoint only |
A NAT gateway per zone; interface endpoints |
Cost; zone risk accepted and documented |
| 30 Oct 2026 |
Performance changes must leave pages identical; riskier ones ship behind switches that are off by default |
Optimise freely |
No regressions before launch |
| 29 Oct 2026 |
DAM data stays cached in memcache, with memcache sized up |
Shorter DAM cache lifetime |
Evictions, not the lifetime, caused the slowness |
| 29 Oct 2026 |
The Cloudflare zone's rules, Workers and DNS records are managed in Terraform with a nightly drift check |
Dashboard changes |
Audit trail and no silent drift |
| Oct 2026 |
URLs carry country and language; country, region and language are independent; three content regions |
Language-only URLs |
Cacheable pages with market-specific content |
| Oct 2026 |
Finder text is machine-translated only |
Human review |
PADI decision |
| 19 Oct 2026 |
Staging deploys need no approval (edge Workers excepted); production does |
Approval on staging |
Delivery speed with a production safeguard |
| 18 Oct 2026 |
Per-hostname client certificates for origin pulls |
Cloudflare's shared certificate |
The shared certificate can be presented by any Cloudflare customer |
| 16 Oct 2026 |
Staging carries production PADI Travel data through its own stream |
Staging data |
Realistic testing |
| Sep 2026 |
All systems deploy through AWS CodePipeline with one shared library |
GitHub Actions to EC2 (retired); Acquia Pipelines |
One delivery platform for web, edge and finder |
| Jun–Sep 2026 |
Frontend on Acquia Front End Hosting Advanced |
Vercel; AWS Amplify (supported Next.js 15 only) |
Single vendor with the Drupal hosting; contract in place |
