What's new

There has been a lot of work on internal tooling this week as we push towards our launch. Sometimes these things don't feel productive, but they save a lot of time in the long run.

• Added additional testing to help make sure we don't break things.
• Updates to internal tooling.
• Update importing data timezones to UTC.
• Update landing page images to show latest updates.
• Updates to broker details.

It is always tricky to get the underlying data structures right the first time. Give we do not have any user data yet, now is the time to make some final adjustments. While we were at it, we also made a few tweaks to the watchlist UI to make it easier to use.

• Update the underlying data structures to simplify and make more maintainable.
• Make some improvements to the watchlist.

Another big week of backend development, including looking at payment providers. Plus all that boring backend stuff that no one is interested in!

• Form customisation and standardisation.
• Investigate payment providers.
• Update project dependencies.

This week has seen continued focus on preparing to release Trader-Biz. Adding in features and monitoring that was not needed during development that help us maintain a top quality product.

• Add 404 and 500 error pages.
• Improve form saving.
• Add uptime monitoring and alerting for staff.
• Improve the production release work flow.
• Run a test release of the production software.

Trader-Biz has been in development for a long time and we are getting closer to going live later this year. This week saw a strong focus on preparing our computing infrastructure for running the production environment.

• Infrastructure updates to run the production environment.
• Additional checks to ensure restricted pages are only accessible to logged in users.