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…

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…

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…

We 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…

We 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…