Engineering Standup Notes — Mar 10

(captured live, might be missing stuff)

Backend:
- We HAVE to fix the N+1 query thing in user-search before Wed's deploy. Jake saw 3 second response times in staging when we hit 500 concurrent users so it's pretty bad.
- Would be good to get Redis caching in for session lookups this sprint if we can
- The auth middleware could probably use some DI refactoring too but that's lower priority, only if someone has time

Frontend:
- The Safari dropdown z-index bug needs to be fixed before we hand off to QA. Lisa found it on iOS 17.4 — it only shows up when the modal is already open for some reason
- Also reminder: nobody should be merging PRs without the visual regression suite running. That's a hard rule.

DevOps:
- SSL certs need rotating by end of sprint — they expire April 2nd. Mike has the runbook for it.
- After that's done we should probably update the alertmanager thresholds in monitoring
