Roots

Some of our users ask about the background of our company. This is articulated on our About Us pages. The real roots, the very foundation of our business is running. In particular it is my experience 34+ years ago on the Bucknell Cross Country…

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Open Registration API

In our last post we talked about Teamwork and the “Strength of the Pack”. The purpose of that post was to provide the context of why we are continuing to work on our Open API – a very technical topic. In simple terms, an API is…

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“The Strength of the Pack”

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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Another Improvement in Availability

One of the Amazon servers went into a hang mode yesterday (always on a Sunday ;-). As we have written before, all of our servers are set up in a redundant fashion, but there are always “gotchas” that you can only learn…

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Zip Code API

As part of our efforts to create a modern and open platform for running, we are developing a number of interesting technologies that are useful to others.  Of course the Open Running API is the foundation of these efforts, and we continue to get…

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2013 Mid-Year Availability Update

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…

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We Screwed Up

We 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,…

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How long before a race do people register?

We just ran a report for the races that use RunSignup over the past two years. Here are the results: 26.9 % 1 week in advance16.1 % 2 weeks in advance20.7 % 1 month in advance35.3 % 6 months in advance0.9 %…

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Testimonial

Melinda Tate, the race director for The Middle Half left this comment on our blog: “We are THRILLED with RunSignup! I was a little nervous switching to a new registration service, but now I am spreading the word to all of my race director friends…

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Race or Runner payment for Processing Fees

We just did a count on the breakdown of race-paid or runner-paid processing fees. Clubs are a little more prone to pay the processing fee: We will do another post in 6 months on this topic and see what trends occur.

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