📦 New data: Instructor indexing of names
As a result of some updates being written to make searching for instructors by name possible, a database upgrade will be necessary.
This means that some functionality on the site will be limited for a couple hours starting Thursday, January 9, 2020 at midnight. Services will resume automatically when this upload has completed.
Technical mumbo
The updates being made are inspired by Ken Tan’s technique for text search in Google Firestore. After deleting Firestore collections used in production and uploading a new dataset created with the importer tool, future features to the site can be deployed and tested in-place without any delay.