Another Heads-Up: @PlayDice status update
@PlayDice (WAS) feeling a little under the weather
Some @playdice regulars may have noticed that payouts weren't happening for a few weeks. There's a long (technical) explanation, but in short: The STEEM APIs changed their rules so that I could only query the last 20 transactions at a time... this meant I had to either run the query every few minutes (and potentially still miss some transactions)... or I had to rework (rewrite actually) the existing code to process winners when payout occurred.
Success!!! (partially)
I managed to finish that code yesterday, and my local database got back into sync with all the winners' payout information... #SCORE 🤘 ... and then I started the arduous manual process of running the actual winnings payout script ... #SCORE2 🤘🤘
Speedbump
But then I hit a speedbump... All was running smoothly, albeit slowly and manual (because I was processing payouts for more than a month's games)... but then I hit a snag: I ran out of RCs (Resource credits to payout further winnings #FacePalm).
The solution:
Gonna wait a few days for RC to reach 50% RCs again and then I'm gonna process the other half of the payouts not yet done... and then everything will be back on track for regular posting & payout.
Bonus
It's a little technical (although if the API had even remote decent documentation and maintenance, it would have been a lot easier), but the code is now at a point where faults/timeouts are handled better, so there should be less of that... and more NB: In the event of "catastrophic failure" like we had with the last time and get out of sync, it will be a LOT easier to simply "replay" the entire blockchain from any particular transaction and stop at any arbitrary one (previously I needed to replay the whole lot starting from point X, or nothing at all :-( ...
Which brings me to the next point: If anyone reading this (all 3 of you) knows of anyone actively developing on the STEEM blockchain (and/or preferably a witness), please hook me up with an introduction. It seems STEEM is dead, and the chain is running on auto-pilot? I really hope this isn't the case :P
Anyway... enough rambling. I could have just said:
"@PlayDice is fixed, and it's gonna take a few days to catch up up to the current block"
... so I'll end with that ;-)
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Thanks for your efforts in getting everything in order again :)
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