Category: Infrastructure

We had deployed an update last night which apparently affected one of our web servers.  So for the past 12 hours some of our users (half) experienced slow response times (>2 seconds).  We think all transactions were complete if people had patience….

We have recently done a number of upgrades to our infrastructure to try to improve our service.  As discussed in an earlier blog, we are trying to be transparent on how we operate. One of the biggest things that worries us about providing…

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….

We 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…

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…

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…