In March of this year, GameChanger hit a record of 800 million pitches logged. That’s 7,953 times the number of pitches baseball legend Cy Young threw in his entire career. He might have logged his pitches in his day if cell phones were around then. Now, all sports fans need to make a record of their pitches is a phone, and possibly collective agreement on what… Read More
When you load test an app, you do so with a confident estimate of the amount of traffic you’ll receive. Your goal is to find and eliminate the high traffic variable that might cause your app to lag, or a server to tip over. When you’re building an app for Justin Bieber to promote his new album, that high traffic variable can never be fully quantified,… Read More
Jeff Lawson went through three companies before he noticed the trend. In college, Jeff started Versity, an online notetaking marketplace. After receiving funding, he hired a C-level executive to help out. The exec ordered focus groups with college students to determine what they want. Jeff was a college student himself at the time. He knew what college students wanted; no focus group required. This order confounded… Read More
When asked a tough question, a wise man once said, “Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.” Jeff Lawson was asked a tough question on Product Hunt’s Live Chat and his response was “the internet of bears.” Ryan Hoover wanted to know the most creative Twilio use cases Jeff had seen. A group of scientists’ Twilio SMS powered bear tracking collars made the cut. That is the internet of… Read More
Here are a few bits of advice: Test code in production. Skip the code reviews. Ship the app before load testing it. With these helpful tips, you’ll be on your way to certain doom in no time. Sai Yerram once had a brush with the perils of not load testing, and he’s built a Twilio load tester to help his fellow developers avoid the danger he… Read More
After connecting to a guy with an Al Gore mask, a group of loud college kids, and a yodelling expert, I met my current girlfriend of 3 years on ChatRoulette. Despite never having any luck with dating apps like Tinder or OkCupid, I was somehow able to find love there. I think it was precisely because ChatRoulette didn’t allow you to craft a persona beforehand that… Read More
There’s a whole lot of owl drawing to be done when you’re launching a mobile app. In the massive app landscape, it’s up to you to find your niche, fill it, and ship an excellent product. Doing that takes a tremendous amount of work, and the right set of tools. Today, we’re happy to join the FbStart program, with help from the TwilioFund, to give developers… Read More
Think about your last incident. It was in the middle of the night (it’s always in the middle of the night). Someone called you at 2AM. Still half asleep, you did your best to register the bad news. After a quick chat your ops and engineering teams decide to work through the problem via HipChat. For those of you that live in HipChat you know that… Read More
Wisby had the drive, the customer support team, and the resources in place to deliver awesome customer service. But, there were two sizeable barriers they had to overcome: time and distance. Namely, reducing the time it took to respond to customers, and reducing the geographic telecom barriers cause a delay in response. To solve their problems and deliver excellent customer service, Wisby enlisted the help of… Read More