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Infrastructure February 4, 2026

Platform hardening: lower latency and safer retries

We shipped backend reliability improvements for active boards, uploads, and scoreboard polling.

#reliability #performance #api

This update is focused on event-day reliability.

Improvements shipped

  • Reduced scoreboard polling response times during peak event windows.
  • Added safer retry handling for upload and proof ingestion paths.
  • Tightened API guardrails around duplicate submission payloads.

Impact

Hosts should see smoother live board updates and fewer edge-case stalls when many teams submit progress at once.