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We’ve done a lot of work this year on improving the availability of our Service. Over the past several months we have moved to completion of that in parallel with our scalability project and have reached a point of stability and the…
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Our Scalability project has reached success! We have eclipsed our goal of doing 50,000 registrations in 10 minutes – completing the task in only 7 minutes. This means RunSignup is simply the most scalable registration system in the world – able to meet the…
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One of the races that uses RunSignUp, the Passaic Valley 5K, is being highlighted on Running HD on the YES Network (the network that carries the Yankees and other sports teams). They gave a nice shout-out to RunSignUp! Here is the video: Highlights of…
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I just came back from the Amazon Cloud Conference. I am more convinced than ever that we made the right decision a year ago to move to the Cloud. Amazon now has hundreds of thousands of businesses from 190 countries now using…
Read MoreWe did a very interesting upgrade today on RunSignup. In technical terms, we added something called Session Replication. And we did this across two Amazon Availability Zones by duplicating our memcache session servers. What this means is that if one of Amazon’s…
Read MoreWe still have a lot of work to do, but the progress so far is really good. We have a great test suite designed where we can deploy any number of test servers to emulate any number of runners registering for a…
Read MoreThis is for advanced users who want to integrate an existing (or new) application with our Club API. The main purpose is for an application to sync data associated with members of a club with the external application. We are currently working…
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The Alan Jones Vestal XX (named after Alan Jones the founder of the race, former Triple Cities Running Club President and the namesake of the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award) recently posted over 40 years of results for their 20KM…
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It is a bad day for some of the Amazon Cloud (see this for a report how Reddit, Airbnb, Github, CourseEra, Flipboard and many more went down). Fortunately, we have been working on expanding our redundancy and failover. And this was a good…
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RunScore is our first partner who has taken full advantage of the RunSignup Open API to make life simple for timers and race directors who want to get results posted FAST! Alan Jones of RunScore did the integration. It goes full circle….
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