May 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cla_backend focused on cleaning up the Backend API to reduce technical debt and accelerate future development. The primary work removed unused API endpoints and associated tests, streamlining the codebase and improving maintainability across the service surface.

April 2026: MCC-focused enhancements delivered for the CLA backend, strengthening the MCC case management API and deployment reliability. Highlights include a detailed MCC case endpoint, event-log filtering by codes, modular MCC endpoints, improved case retrieval, updated routing under cla_provider, stricter MCC URL validation, and deployment tooling improvements (CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes). The work also included architectural cleanup by separating MCC-exclusive endpoints into a dedicated package and introducing an MCC-specific split-case endpoint. This period also encompassed targeted fixes to tooling, linting, and tests to improve stability and code quality.

March 2026 performance-focused month delivering a Redis caching layer across MCC environments (UAT, staging, production) to accelerate MCC workflows and reduce backend load. Implemented per-environment Redis provisioning; production includes Redis module configuration and Kubernetes secret management for sensitive data. This aligns with reliability and performance targets for the cloud-platform-environments repository.