Author: 0x895be97bdb9f8a244c472b18ea96dee39ddf8fe5
Update Status: On Time
Project Health: 
On Track
Introduction
we’re gearing up to finish the grant with the last major feature being put in place and some long-term sustainability and performance improvements
Highlights
the scene utilization feature should be rolling out in the next few days, here’s a preview as it’s not yet live:
utilization is the measure of lands with deployed content - so any land that has a scene on it, regardless if that scene was visited at any point in the day. the heat map, also shown, shows visits to deployed scenes. so it goes like this:
all parcels (the entire available map of DCL) > utilized parcels (with a scene deployed) > active parcels (someone visited there in last 24hrs)
Blockers
not a blocker exactly, but we had a large DDOS attack and/or hacking attempt during this month. luckily our API is relatively secure, but I ended up putting the app into maintenance mode for ~24 hours cause of the potential associated costs. This didn’t have much effect on usage as the front end app is 75% cached content updated periodically via fetching scripts.
However I am monitoring the situation - my guess is it was a one-off, if it happens again i’ll have to take other measures.
Next steps
finish up the front end implementation of the scene utilization and continue tweaking longer term maintanence tasks.