We added an Event Transfer API: https://test.runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/switch-participant-events/POST. This allows our technology partners to make more transparent syncing between their application and RunSignup. This works by creating a brand new registration for the registrant and removing the old registrant, so a new registration id is…
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Earlier this week we had the whole team together to review our strategy and work on where we are headed. We are growing very fast (about 4-5 bigger this year than last), and it is important to make sure we all stay…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreOur 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….
Read MoreOne 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…
Read MoreAs 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…
Read MoreAs 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,…
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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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