It has been a good week at RunSignup. We get excited about two things. One, when we make a customer happy and hear about it. And two, when we finish a major project that will really help race directors, timers and runners….
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RunSignup has a number of advantages over older registration systems. We’ve talked a lot about our Cloud architecture providing a scalable infrastructure. Our rapid pace of software development is also allowing us to meet the needs of our race directors and timers….
Read MoreWe recently did a major upgrade of our management and monitoring tools to use New Relic. It provides us a number of things: Monitoring & Alerting. We had been depending on our own simple scripts for this. This now monitors the site…
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I just got back from visiting my daughter in Tanzania. She is over there for a year teaching English in a remote Massai village with the Orkeeswa School. She started a running club after school. The club participated in the Half Marathon and…
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One of the things we want to do at RunSignup is be pretty transparent about how we operate. It helps us understand what is good and what we can improve upon in a direct fashion. As you may know, we run on…
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We have started working on the scalability of RunSignup. This is a major project for us this summer, building on our move to the Cloud from this past winter. We have implemented a bunch of caching and other performance optimizations over the past couple…
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There was an article in the New York Times about how technology companies are over anxious to collect and “monetize” user information. While they talk in public about how they “do no evil” or fall on their sword when there is a public outcry,…
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We went to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi this past weekend. It is a great documentary movie about Jiro Ono: “JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is…
Read MoreI come from the Internet Technology business with a lot of focus on open source and the newer Cloud models. This has been a driving force in how we have thought about designing and delivering RunSignup. I just re-read an article by…
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