upate timmerdorp shop history for 2024

docs/.vuepress/config.js

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  lastUpdated: 'Last Updated',
  editLinkText: 'Edit this page on GitHub',
  sidebar: [
+ '/2024/',
  '/2022/',
  '/2021/',
  '/2020/',

docs/2022/06-30-timmerdorp-ticket-shop.md → docs/2024/07-02-timmerdorp-ticket-shop.md

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 ---
 description: The history of the timmerdorp ticket shop
-date: 2022-06-30T12:00:00+0000
+date: 2024-07-02T12:00:00+0000
 
 meta:
  - name: keywords
- content: 2022 timmerdorp webshop tickets sale voluntary
+ content: 2024 timmerdorp webshop tickets sale voluntary
 
 feed:
  enable: true
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ feed:
 # Timmerdorp webshop, a brief history
 
 ## Background
-Every year the last week of the summer holiday, there is this big event: [Timmerdorp Heiloo](https://timmerdorp.com/). Up to 675 kids from the age of 7 to 12 gather for 4 days on a field with a huge pile of pallets and construct, improve, paint and finally destroy a wooden hut. The only tools they use: A hammer, nails and a saw. This has been a tradition for years (I believe this year (2022) is the 47th edition). I thought it would be fun to write down the technological evolution of the administration around selling and managing 675 tickets a year.
+Every year the last week of the summer holiday, there is this big event: [Timmerdorp Heiloo](https://timmerdorp.com/). Up to 675 kids from the age of 7 to 12 gather for 4 days on a field with a huge pile of pallets and construct, improve, paint and finally destroy a wooden hut. The only tools they use: A hammer, nails and a saw. This has been a tradition for years (I believe this year (2024) is the 49th edition). I thought it would be fun to write down the technological evolution of the administration around selling and managing 675 tickets a year.
 
 ## Prologue
 I think it started in 2015, we used to go from hut to hut on tuesday morning, to make a list of all the attendees, writing down their names and general location, so we had something to fall back to during an evacuation or some other incident (a parent at the gate).
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ At some point in the following years we discussed replacing the physical ticket
 Up to and including timmerdorp heiloo 2016 we used to sell phisical tickets, there would be a huge line at 10:00 in the morning on some saturday. A lot of people would queue up hours before, just to get a great spot in line, so they can get their hands on these tickets.
 
 ## 2017
-[Paydro](https://paydro.com/)
+[Paydro](https://paydro.com/) expensive ticket shop solution, we paid almost 1200eu (1eu per ticket + payment method fee)
 
 ## 2018
 Wordpress woocommerce tickets plugin
@@ -38,9 +38,24 @@ Repeated the woocommerce shop
 Corona
 
 ## 2021
-The new webshop
+The new webshop, parse server
+hosted on sashido
 With the help of Stan van Baarsen, I build a completely new shop from scratch, no plugin or ticket service costs, just all we needed from a webshop catered to our needs.
 mail issues
 
 ## 2022
+sashido again
 Some small improvements and a flawless sale, we started selling tickets at 10:00 and were sold out at around 17:00.
+
+## 2023
+digital ocean kubernetes + mongodb atlas
+Problems: the demand was rising, a lot of people tried to buy tickets at 10:00 am sharp. The shop couldn't handle this, some double payments and mismatched tickets to orders occured.
+
+## 2024
+retry on kubernetes, some code improvements to prevent the issues from last year.
+I set up grafana log aggregation
+Still some issues, the ticket count failed, we sold more tickets than intended 616 instead of the 580 max I had configured.
+A small bug where old payment links could be used for changed orders
+And a crazy demand, a 1000 users (whatever this means, google) tried to buy tickets at 10:00 am.
+<image-element source="2024/timmerdorp-google-analytics" width="740" height="1000" alt="Google analytics" type="png" />
+<image-element source="2024/grafana-request-metrics" width="740" height="425" alt="Grafana request metrics" type="png" />

docs/2024/README.md

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+---
+description: A list of my 2024 articles
+meta:
+ - name: keywords
+ content: 2024 articles blogposts
+---
+
+# 2024
+
+New year, new fun!
+
+### This years "articles":
+
+#### July
+- [Timmerdorp webshop over the years](./07-02-timmerdorp-ticket-shop.md)