did it just get faster (and sweeter)?

Reed Wade

I went to do a bulk fetch of a large pile of things via the constituents API and what used to take an hour plus completed correctly in under 10mins.


(My code hasn't changed.)


Or is this just because it's Saturday night in the US right now?


Also, no internal server error responses and normally there's at least a few.

Warren Sherliker

Must have been that four leaf clover you found!

​​​​​​Where was the server/client located. Would be good to know for times for mass API calls tbh. Would work for Blackbaud too as obviously evens server loads out.

Reed Wade

I'm in New Zealand. Traceroute to developer.sky.blackbaud.com looks like about 240ms which is consistent with California or similar for the server.


For reference these are constituent record requests filtered to not include other tables (as far as I can tell) and with a page size of 5000.

https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents?fields=id,date_added,date_modified,first,inactive,last,middle,name,birthdate,type,preferred_name,former_name,lookup_id&limit=5000


Total collection size is 186,897


I just reran for fun and it completed in 8m58.514s


And zero failed requests which is another indicator the firmament is more stable than previously.