🚀 Platform Updates: September 27, 2024

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🚀 Platform Updates: Enhancing AI Capabilities, Frontend Experience, and Backend Stability

Our team has been working hard to bring several key updates to the platform, optimizing functionality, scalability, and user experience across the board. Here’s a breakdown of the latest updates:

🧠 AI Enhancements:

AI Mentor Improvements

• Finalized the graph AI mentor and improved document training, now leveraging AWS for better scalability and efficiency.
• Enhanced document processing with GitHub, including document chunking for smoother training and untraining.
• Updated YouTube URLs and thumbnails to be recognized, ensuring that scrapped data is organized by date and efficiently tracked.
• Added filtering capabilities for data by likes, archive status, and content types, along with enhanced metadata validation to ensure data integrity.
• Introduced Vertex AI mentor and document training for more accurate data retrieval.
• Implemented a safety system to safeguard mentor interactions, ensuring responses remain within defined boundaries.

Scraper and Crawler Improvements

• Ensured scrapped data is properly ordered and deleted when resources are removed.
• Optimized handling for GitHub documents and web resources.

🌐 Frontend Updates:

Improved User Interface & Accessibility

• Expanded multi-language support, now including automatic translations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese (Simplified), and Arabic.
• Pagination and chat history improvements provide smoother navigation through mentor sessions, while datasets are better integrated into the UI with status indicators.
• Refined error messages, adjusted layout for mentor history overflow, and enhanced coupon support during checkout.
• Added tenant checks and introduced support for both Anonymous and Authenticated mentor modes, streamlining user interactions.

Component Enhancements

• Refactored career and profile components with new features like Education and Experience pages.
• Implemented language support using the useIblTranslation hook for better localization.
• Improved session management and redirect functionality, particularly for external sites, ensuring a seamless user flow across platforms.

🛠️ Backend & DevOps Enhancements:

Improved Scalability & Search Performance

• Autoscale functionality added to Celery workers, allowing dynamic scaling based on system demand.
• Enhanced search optimizations, including trigram-based query improvements for more refined search results, alongside better query parameter handling.
• Introduced coupon creation in the admin interface with seamless integration into Stripe for efficient checkout processes.

System Stability & Compatibility

• Introduced a Celery heartbeat health check for better monitoring and system uptime.
• Updated several core apps to ensure compatibility across multi-service environments, enhancing platform stability and user experience.
• Released an updated version of ibl-dm-catalog-app, providing a streamlined solution for managing catalogs.

🔧 DevOps Improvements:

• Optimized Resource Usage & Performance
• Increased rate and profile limits, ensuring the platform can handle larger datasets and resource-intensive operations.
• Integrated autoscale functionality for Celery workers, ensuring the system can adapt to varying workloads.
• Updated the platform to the latest version of edX, bringing improvements to SCORM handling with new XBlock integrations.