BUILD

hey BUILDers! 🫡

Thank you for being so engaged with nominations this week, and almost crashing the @talent API 😅 

Here's 3 common answers I've been giving to some of you:

1. If your Weekly Budget still shows 0, and you’re sure you’re eligible, please try the new button to “Recalculate Budget” (see image)

2. Until next Tuesday, BUILD Points are supposed to be 0, for everyone. BUILD Points can only be calculated after all weekly nominations are made. Nominations close on Monday night.

3. Your budget is not as low as you think. The average weekly budget is ~1K points, and less than 10 people currently have a budget above 10K points

4. Some users experienced slow loading times or even errors. These are related with high volume of requests to the Talent Protocol API (1.3M API requests in less than 3 days), but we’ve been working on it.

If you haven't started, you still have until next Monday to make all your weekly nominations.

What’s your Builder Score?

Reveal your reputation at http://talentprotocol.com.

Summer of TALENT

Just a quick update - we’ve seen that the Talent Passport performance was a bit degraded and @rubendinis spent some time looking into it. Here’s what we noticed and what we changed. We’ve been actively redux’ing our old apps, and after EthCC we took down the Playground App. 

We also started to tracking the API usage and requiring API keys to make requests. This usage tracking system was a bit naive and made our Redis cache crash multiple times. We’ve since changed how this works and that should make the system a lot more resilient. During this investigation we also took the opportunity to improve a bit the indexes that are used in our search endpoint (which is the most costly endpoint) and we saw a huge increase in throughput when we changed from BTREE indexes to GIN indexes.

Keep building o7

here's more details on point 4:
https://warpcast.com/leal.eth/0x96bec76b

Good day @macedo, I have tried multiple times to nominate. 
Each time I keep getting the same error. 

What can I do on my end to fix this issue?