Chip and GPS Results

We have released a new capability to include RunSignUp’s RaceDay Results in the RaceJoy App automatically. This means any race where the timer is uploading results (either automatically from The Race Director or RunScore or Agee Timing or manually uploading CSV result…


Infrastructure Improvement Summary

We try to improve our infrastructure in Q1 of each year to make sure we do not build up technical debt and stay on top of the most current trends in technology. We have four goals when we look at this each…


Upgraded Infrastructure Hardware

We have also completed an upgrade of our hardware infrastructure over the past week. This includes upgrades to our front end load balancers, our web servers and our database server (we left the memcache servers the same since they are so over-sized…


Amazon Aurora Database Upgrade

We did a major database upgrade to Amazon Aurora MySQL this morning (with zero downtime!). This upgrade increases performance, improves scalability, improves reliability, availability and positions RunSignUp for continued growth and change. We were one of the Beta test sites for Aurora, and were…


Technology Really Does Matter

Most people do not understand technology, which is fine. The problem is that many people translate that into not valuing technology or the complexity behind the many simple uses of the web and mobile apps they see every day. This winds up…


RunSignUp 2015 Year in Review

We have had another amazing year. Customer adoption of our technology is confirming our strategy and hard work to focus specifically on the Endurance marketplace. We love this market because customers are great, and in spite of the plethora of vendors, there…


RunSignup – Built for the Long Run

I (Bob) have taken a bunch of vacation time and had minor surgery that required time off, so I’ve had time to do a lot of reading (Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (great play!) and Ben Bernanke’s Courage to Act and a bunch of web stuff)….


Infrastructure Upgrades – October 2015

We invest a lot in our behind-the-scenes infrastructure. We just completed a fairly major set of projects to improves our resiliency and fault tolerance. In addition, we upgraded the versions of the number of the components we use in our infrastructure. The…


Cache Outage Report

We had a non-critical cache outage last night that caused some response time to be over 2 seconds from 4:05 AM until 5:15AM. Due to our highly available design, the only thing users would have noticed is the system being a bit slower….


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