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ZD-4471 Riverbend Clinic · bulk referral upload times out around 200 rows
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MichaelAPP10:42 AM
Same failure as ZD-4288 and ZD-4102. Both were resolved by splitting the file, and engineering flagged the gateway limit as the real cause. Draft reply is in the thread. Calling it Sev-3 unless Riverbend is blocked today.
Priya
Priya10:44 AM
they're blocked, go ahead
MichaelAPP10:44 AM
Moved to Sev-2, paged @eng-oncall, and linked the bug so this ticket updates itself when the fix lands.
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MichaelAPP11:02 AM
Four clinics hit the bulk upload limit this month, two of them still in onboarding. Drafted PRD-118 for chunked upload with retry. Evidence: ZD-4471, 4288, 4102, 3990. Rough size is three days.
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PRD-118: Chunked bulk upload with retry

Four clinics hit the bulk upload limit this month, two of them still in onboarding.

StatusDraft

Estimate3 days

EvidenceZD-4471 + 3 more

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Dana
Dana11:05 AM
how does that land against the Q3 commitments?
MichaelAPP11:05 AM
It displaces the export filters work by a week. Both of the onboarding clinics have go-live dates before that ships, so I'd take the trade. Your call.
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MichaelAPP11:18 AM
PR #942 up for PRD-118. Chunked at 100 rows, exponential backoff on retry, behind a flag. Touches upload_service and the referral parser. Added a test for the 200-row case that broke Riverbend.
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PR #942: Chunked upload behind a flag

100-row chunks with exponential backoff. Test added for the 200-row case that broke Riverbend.

StatusOpen

Branchprd-118-chunked-upload

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Sam
Sam11:21 AM
why 100 and not 250
MichaelAPP11:21 AM
250 still hit the gateway ceiling twice in staging. Numbers are in the PR description. Happy to raise it if you want to lift the timeout instead.

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MichaelAPP1:12 PM
Twelve cases against staging for PRD-118. Eleven pass. Case 7 fails: a 1,000-row file returns 504 on the final chunk. Repro and logs are in the run. I'd keep the flag off for enterprise accounts until this clears.
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Sam
Sam1:15 PM
good catch, on it
MichaelAPP2:40 PM
Reran after your commit. Twelve for twelve. Ready to put it on Thursday's release and update Riverbend's thread in #support.
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Staging rerun — PRD-118 acceptance suite

Twelve for twelve after the fix commit. Case 7 (1,000-row file) now passes.

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