At Unbounce, we’re on a constant quest for improving our infrastructure in order to deliver the best service possible to our users. Our goal is to achieve four to five nines availability for our services, while planning for an order of magnitude more traffic. What is perceived externally as a set of services (page builder, page server…) is composed internally of a set of applications that interact with each other. Read More...
The Theory “…large numbers of defects are often more attributable to the complexity and risk of a piece of code than to the author’s abilities.” – Jason Cohen Code review is like test-driven development, version control, and brushing your teeth. Everyone knows they’re good ideas and yet not everyone does them. At Unbounce we review all code changes before they’re allowed anywhere near the master branch, our implicit assumption being Read More...
This morning we experienced some unplanned downtime, which is highly unusual for us. The short version of the story is that we made a mistake, we owe you, our customers, an apology, and we will most certainly work to ensure that it never happens again. But if you’d like to better understand this morning’s outage and what we’re already doing to prevent these kinds of issues in the future, I Read More...