VAFA Media Live Coverage – Saturday, June 11
Round 8 of VAFA Media action delivers 3 LIVE William Buck Premier Men’s matches – including a Uni Blues double-header that delivers a Top 3 blockbuster and the Holmesglen Under
The AFL have provided the following response to the issues encountered by users of the PlayHQ platform last weekend (Saturday 13th April).
What went wrong?
PlayHQ encountered a site-wide system outage on Saturday 13th April between 6pm (AEST) and 11:30 pm (AEST). Around one third of users visiting playhq.com and the PlayAFL App saw a 404 error message instead of the fixtures and match centres they sought. Those visiting the admin portal and registration flows would have found it slow. Some users would have been affected when downloading games to score on the scoring portal but scoring functioned without issue otherwise.
What caused it?
After a change to mobile apps deployed in January 2024, PlayHQ’s mobile app requests to the PlayHQ Neo4j database layer were not being cached correctly. Our mobile app requests were hitting our Neo4j database and not the cache as expected. This issue was exacerbated by the significant growth in usage of PlayHQ’s mobile apps. Neo4j hit its database limit, and all the services relying on this database failed.
What is being done about it?
PlayHQ is focused on ensuring it doesn’t happen moving forward with the following actions implemented:
Pleasingly, there were no such ‘outage’ issues with the PlayHQ platform on the weekend. Along with other Metro Football Leagues, we will continue to monitor the platform closely and have AFL address all concerns.
Access results, ladders and player stats on PlayHQ via the VAFA website here.
Round 8 of VAFA Media action delivers 3 LIVE William Buck Premier Men’s matches – including a Uni Blues double-header that delivers a Top 3 blockbuster and the Holmesglen Under
REPRESENTATAIVE FOOTBALL The VAFA Representative Football Program kicked off last Friday with 270 guests attending the VAFA’s annual Big V Luncheon, presented by CitiPower, held at the RACV City Club.
The VAFA is delighted to announce the 47 players selected in the initial Big V Premier B-Division 3 Men’s Senior Squad to face the Goulburn Valley League at Revo Fitness
