🚀 Platform Updates: November 22, 2024

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates: November 22, 2024

This week’s updates bring impactful changes to the ibl.ai ecosystem. Here’s a comprehensive look at what’s new across AI, frontend, backend, and DevOps platforms.

🧠 AI Updates

Mentor Enhancements:

• Introduced analytics endpoints for chat history and mentors to provide deeper insights into user interactions.
• Enhanced mentor capabilities with flow validation, versioning for saved mentors, and improved HTML data extraction.
• Updated chat history for Gemini calls, ensuring consistent access to prior messages during conversations.
• Streamlined logging across services with file loggers replacing print statements and root loggers.

Performance Optimizations:

• Updated resource crawlers to utilize LLMs for better content extraction.
• Proactive prompts are now excluded from chat history, enabling cleaner and more focused mentor-student interactions.
• Enhanced test coverage and stability with revised serializers and endpoint validations.

🌐 Frontend Updates

Improved User Experience:

• Revamped navigation with dynamic Next/Previous buttons for course outlines and public credential detail pages.
• Enhanced mentor creation with improved workflows and error handling in mentor SPAs.

Component Updates:

• Enhanced React components to ensure navigation links, headers, and download options are displayed only when logged in.
• Incorporated user feedback into mentor SPAs with additional feature improvements.
• Improved navigation and accessibility features to create a smoother user experience.
• Introduced new functionality to address specific user needs, such as displaying dataset types for users on trial.

🛠️ Backend Updates

License and Invitation Management:

• Updated license creation endpoints with enhanced logging, bulk invitation capabilities, and platform-wide invitation management.
• Streamlined permissions and query filters for improved course and program invitation workflows.

API Enhancements:

• Introduced new endpoints in the career app for location submission and retrieval, facilitating user analytics and personalization.
• Added bulk credential creation scripts with metadata validation to streamline issuing credentials.

Data Synchronization and Reporting:

• Enabled public updates for role/skill management and synchronized course block data for real-time updates.
• Improved aggregation and centralized management of reports across Django apps.

🔧 DevOps Updates

Monitoring and Recovery:

• Launched a SQLite-based health check monitoring system with state management and smart recovery mechanisms.
• Enhanced DNS resolver with configurable IP lookups and error handling for improved reliability.
• Introduced custom email settings in Open edX with streamlined activation commands and documentation.

Command Line Enhancements:

• Added commands for managing health checks, viewing history, and configuring DNS.
• Improved notification systems with detailed reporting on state changes and error handling.