{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/codecombat/codecombat/issues/2489","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/codecombat/codecombat/issues/2489/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/codecombat/codecombat/issues/2489/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/codecombat/codecombat/issues/2489/events","html_url":"https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/2489","id":60366734,"number":2489,"title":"Speed up initial MongoDB connection times","user":{"login":"nwinter","id":99704,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/99704?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter","html_url":"https://github.com/nwinter","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nwinter/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-03-09T16:07:01Z","updated_at":"2015-03-09T16:07:01Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It takes 33 seconds to connect to the MongoDB queue:\r\n\r\n```\r\n2015-03-09T16:04:24.911Z - info: Express SSL server listening on port 3000\r\n2015-03-09T16:04:57.732Z - info: Successfully connected to MongoDB queue!\r\n```\r\n\r\nI don't know why it takes so long, but it probably doesn't help deployment times, and it definitely doesn't help local development times when using the production database. Maybe there's a way to make this faster? (What could possibly take 33 seconds in internet world?) @schmatz can you take a look?"}}