Stabilize django-plotly-dash apps by registering them at startup#390
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PR Description
This PR fixes several intermittent failures in the platform Dash graphs.
Problems found
We were hitting two structural issues in the current
django-plotly-dashintegration:initial_argumentswere configured to use cache storage, but the current deployment usesLocMemCache, which is process-local and not shared across workers.Because of this, the page request and the embedded Dash iframe requests could be handled by different workers with different in-memory state. In practice, this caused inconsistent behavior such as:
Changes applied
To solve this, the PR introduces the following changes:
AppConfig.ready()initial_argumentsinitial_argumentsin the Django session instead of process-local cacheAffected graphs
The stabilization was applied to:
samplePerLabGraphicsamplesReceivedOverTimeMapsampleVariantGraphicvariationLineageOverTimeneedlePlotMutationByLineageThese changes make the graph state deterministic across requests and remove the worker-local state issues that were causing the inconsistent rendering.