Friday, December 11, 2009

Beta Release Updates

We pushed out another build yesterday after completing a test pass with UTest testers. This build allowed us to pull in additional Beta testers so we have sent out a round of beta invitations to new customers allowing them to try out our product.

We decided to go down the path of using invitations for the beta as a means to control the scaling of our application. This allows us to slowly grow the user base while keeping a close eye on the service and how it handles the large amounts of data transfer that it does as the number of users grows. We want to get an idea of how many users and data retrieval jobs one of our servers can handle so that we can project our needs as we grow.

The functionality in this release includes the following:
  • Complete Retrieval of all your Basecamp Data and Files.
  • Control over scheduling of automated data retrieval.
  • FTP Push of your data to your server.
  • Storage of data and files in a non-proprietary format that you can access at anytime with the tools you already use.
We're pushing ahead on our feature list and will be doing incremental releases as we get a batch of features completed and though our test cycle.

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