Overview

TL;DR: We're building an expanded service for UTD-related data - the Nebula Data Service. UTD Grades will remain accessible, but the new dashboard will include more information than purely grades.

Timeline

• #18
• UTD Grades will be deprecated on October 13, 2021
• UTD Grades will be fully retired in spring 2022
  • utdgrades.com will redirect to grades.utdnebula.com or whatever will be the chosen route for grades data

Overview

Right now, the UTD Grades back-end functions are deployed to AWS Lambda using the acmutdlabs AWS root account. However, all other Project Nebula products use Google Cloud Platform, which integrates with our existing IAM solution (Google Workspace). Although UTD Grades is soon to be deprecated, it may need to exist in a backup form for our intended March 25, 2022 target for its deprecation and may need to stay up. Furthermore, redeploying to Google Cloud may give us the opportunity to reduce costs in the meantime, which may give more funding to other parts of the Project Nebula budget. As such, we should redeploy the service to use GCP resources.

Tasks

• Ensure that the UTD Grades backend is properly containerized
• Deploy the UTD Grades functions container to Google Cloud Run or equivalent
• Configure settings to auto-scale the container to reduce resource usage when client request volume is low

I think we should assign @NickBurnett

Overview

The UTD Grades database needs to be updated to display grade distributions for fall 2020, spring 2021, and summer 2021 data. Using the data that @Tmtomer and the Mercury have obtained using a Freedom of Information Act request, follow the repository's documentation on uploading the grades data to the database on AWS that currently stores grades data.