Recent Blogs


Event Registration Insurance

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Allianz Global Assistance to begin offering their event registration insurance* for events registering on RunSignUp effective immediately.  Allianz Global Assistance is the world leader in travel insurance, assistance and personal services. Event registration insurance is…

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Event Registration Insurance

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Allianz Global Assistance to begin offering their event registration insurance* for events registering on RunSignup effective immediately.  Allianz Global Assistance is the world leader in travel insurance, assistance and personal services. Event registration insurance is…

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Updated Database Backups

As part of our big infrastructure upgrade, we have improved our processes for database backups that are in addition to the AWS Aurora automated backups. The Aurora backups are good from a reliability point of view with features like enables point-in-time recovery. However, the…

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Infrastructure Improvement Summary

We try to improve our infrastructure in Q1 of each year to make sure we do not build up technical debt and stay on top of the most current trends in technology. We have four goals when we look at this each…

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1 Weekend, 2 Featured Races and 13,000 Tracking Alerts

This past weekend, the Alamo 13.1 in Texas and the Excalibur 10 Miler in Florida offered RaceJoy to their participants and supporting spectators. Participants and spectators at both events had access to RaceJoy’s advanced features: As Featured Races in RaceJoy, users were…

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RaceJoy Brought the Joy!

From Florida to Utah and Louisiana in between! This past weekend RaceJoy was available at a lot of races, but three stood out with high usage from participants and spectators. These races showed that runners, walkers and spectators alike are embracing RaceJoy’s…

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Improved Background Jobs Availability

There are a number of processes that run on a scheduled basis in a big system like RunSignup – these are called Chronjobs. They are typically run on one server in most environments, and that is how we did things until today….

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6 Million Free Emails

You have used our integrated email system to send over 6 Million Emails this year so far (early March). There are a wide variety of Emails sent, here are some of the types: And lots more. . .  Glad people are getting…

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RaceJoy Infrastructure Upgrade

We have also done a major upgrade of the RaceJoy infrastructure on Amazon AWS – more than doubling the size of the database server and upgrading to the latest version of the database. This will mean our standard environment now handles the…

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