1225602 - CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_FILES should be off by default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

The only reason for using the CACHE_MIDDLEAWARE_FILES setting in the crashstats/models.py <-> middleware is if you're running with a very volatile cache backend (i.e. locmen). Then the fs can back you up as the cache gets reset repeatedly and frequently. Another use case with the CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_FILES is so you can edit the .json files to see what would happen if the middleware responded very differently.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

On the other hand the CACHE_MIDDLEWARE setting ought to always be on. There's really no good default reason for having it off. 

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/blob/e3e0bcb52c00536d1e569b2f7665e7083aa7eb9b/webapp-django/crashstats/settings/base.py#L506-L509

Comment 2

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Created attachment 8688622 [details] [review]
Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/3098

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

As mentioned in the comment here: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/3098#issue-117445070
Once that PR lands we can't close this bug till we check our consul values in stage and prod.

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/806db528792b4f78145eeefdacacdc650559e9a8
bug 1225602 - CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_FILES should be off by default

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/dbcbc0787d8dd66dcb9248e78e0d42cd50101c3d
Merge pull request #3098 from peterbe/bug-1225602-cache_middleware_files-should-be-off-by-default

bug 1225602 - CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_FILES should be off by default