Our Bucknell Cross Country team had a saying that guided us: “The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the Strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” I was thinking about my Coach this past weekend and how he had influenced my life….
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As we have committed to, we do a bi-annual report on Availability of the RunSignup Service. As previously reported, we put a lot of effort in during 2012 to create a multi-faceted approach to high availability for our customers. During the first…
Read MoreWe did a deployment this afternoon at around 2:15 PM Eastern that updated some of our infrastructure (a new version of SQS, which is the queuing service from Amazon that we use). We had done testing on it in our test servers,…
Read MoreIt’s no secret that RunSignup is growing very, very fast. Which is great, unless you run into the problem in the graphic on the right. I’m pretty lucky to have been thru a number of fast growth companies. Mostly successful, but also…
Read MoreAs anyone who uses RunSignUp knows, we are rapidly innovating – just take a look at this blog. There are several secrets to our fast cycle time – great developers, limited scope and focus just on the running market, wonderful customers who…
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We had a problem with one of our load balancers in the middle of the night from a bit after midnight until about 1AM. Two cool things: 1. No users noticed it since there are at least two in service at any…
Read MoreWe are happy to welcome Bryan Jenkins to the RunSignUp Team! As more timers and race directors use RunSignUp, we constantly try to make sure we keep our customer service great. Bryan will join Jordan Desilets who has been helping our customers…
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We are growing very fast thanks to all of the great word of mouth we are receiving from race directors, timers and clubs that use us. Our challenge is to make sure we can handle the growth. Fortunately we have been involved with several…
Read MoreWe’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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