A Write-up on COWIN App's Performance Glitch, Triage & Insights

This write-up is on COWIN App's Performance. Recently, several folks (including Me) shared concerns on COWIN site's crashing info articulated by the Magz & Media. I was trying to get some glimpse on how COWIN App's Technical Team triaged the glitch. Here's the good to facts from an interesting article found on Mint and about COWIN App Technical Team's concern & efforts on Performance and Reliability.

Government's statement on App's Availability & Performance:

The Co-WIN software is a robust, dependable and agile technology. It offers anytime anywhere registration for COVID-19 vaccination.

The capacity of the servers and other parameters have been ramped up to match the unprecedented scale of immunization so that the COWIN system provide citizen-centric services.

Inclusivity, speed and scalability have been kept in mind while designing the unique digital platform with all components being portable, synchronous without excessive and unnecessary dependencies.

The Government's Statistics on API hits observed for first three hours of registration (4 pm to 7 pm):

Apr 28, 2021 had 80 lakh people registered themselves on the portal between 4-7 pm. At 4.35 pm, a tweet from the verified Twitter handle of the Aarogya Setu mobile application said the CoWIN portal is working and that there was a minor glitch at 4 pm, which was fixed".

- 383 million API hits, initially as high as 2.7 million hits per minute.

- As many as 1.45 crore SMSs successfully delivered.

"These statistics indicate that far from crashing or performing slowly, the system is performing without any glitches. It is recording 55,000 hits per second and is completely stable," the government clarified. It also said that detailed statistics relating to registration, vaccinations etc., can be seen on dashboard.cowin.gov.in.

COWIN's Ops Data & Statistics: https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

Source Article: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/cowin-portal-continues-to-work-smoothly-reports-of-crash-incorrect-centre-11619627543884.html

Github: https://github.com/cowinapi/docs

Co-WIN Public APIs: https://apisetu.gov.in/public/marketplace/api/cowin

I thank and appreciate the COWIN Technical Team's Efforts!