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Server application to serve U.S. federal spending data via a RESTful API
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[DEV-11345] Don't use the DB writer instance for reading [hotfix] [master] #4158

Closed aguest-kc closed 3 months ago

aguest-kc commented 3 months ago

Description: Previously, we were randomly choosing between our DB writer instance and the read replicas when choosing a database to use for read operations. This sets the read replicas as the only options for read operations to reduce unnecessary load on the writer instance.

Technical details:

Requirements for PR merge:

  1. [x] Unit & integration tests updated
  2. [x] Necessary PR reviewers:
    • [x] Backend
  3. [x] Data validation completed
  4. [x] Jira Ticket DEV-11345:
    • [x] Link to this Pull-Request
    • [x] Performance evaluation of affected (API | Script | Download)
    • [x] Before / After data comparison

Area for explaining above N/A when needed:

2. API documentation updated
No API documentation is affected by this change.

4. Matview impact assessment completed
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5. Frontend impact assessment completed
The frontend is not affected by this change.

7. Appropriate Operations ticket(s) created
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