Institutional Knowledge

The fall term officially starts on Monday, but our portal servers will be very, very busy Sunday night as student and faculty get online to check their schedules and classes. Last year at this time we had well over 1,000 concurrent users in the portal for most of the night, as you can see below.

The first Monday is even crazier, as one would expect. Last year we even had to take one portal server down for maintenance. Our current setup allows us to do this without much fuss, as we just roll in a hot stand-by server.

Yesterday, we updated the CAS interface. It’s now based on the Yahoo YUI CSS library. Working with the YUI library has been a blessing. We’ve converted most of our web applications, as well as any websites we create, and even a few we update, to use the YUI library. Next up to get converted to YUI, the portal… stay tuned.