Our goal is continuous availability! If you read my first blog, you will know that I talk a bit about multi sourcing. That our infrastructure is broken down into smaller pieces, each of them serviced by its own provider and Service Level Agreement. Infrastructure reconstruction The IT infrastructure can basically be broken down into; Hardware,…

We have recently implemented a new method for connecting to our API called ConnectWithToken. To use this method, you need two IDs: 1) An app ID. This ID belongs to the developer and uniquely identifies the app requesting the connection. To obtain an app ID, developers need to sign up for an e-conomic developer agreement….

Technical Operation in e-conomic is nothing new, of course. However, due to a series of unfortunate incidents during 2012, it has been given much more attention, both from our customers and employees in e-conomic. One of the first steps e-conomic took when realizing that something had to be done differently – they hired an operations…

We have worked on a visual update of the e-conomic websites in order to create a clearer and more direct communication with our customers and an easier sign-up for the e-conomic accounting system. ‘Simple’, ‘casual’, ‘friendly’, ‘professional’ have been some of the keywords for the work along the way – in line with the overall e-conomic spirit…

Update 2013-01-27 07:40: We are online again on our new servers. This concludes this service window. Thanks for your patience and I am sorry for any inconvenience it might have caused you. **************************************************************** Update 2013-01-27 06:00: Due to the unforeseen issues, we have a delay and are expecting that we are online again at 07:30 am. **************************************************************** Update…

As detailed in this blog post by Torben Frigaard we have launched a new product called Debitoor, which we intend to run using a fully cloud-based model. Debitoor is a simple, appealing and intuitive web application that allows small businesses to perform basic accounting tasks, primarily related to invoicing – so in that sense it…

Update 06 November 1:10 am CET The stress tests have now been completed and we expect normal operation from this point. ————————————— Update 05 November 4:30 pm CET Today, Monday 5 November, the e-conomic application has been running at regular speed.

It’s now been a full year since we started a dedicated UX department. While some software companies have had a focus on design from the outset – such as 37signals which has close to a 50/50 split between developers and designers– we have like most other software companies been focusing on functionality first. That doesn’t…

During the past 2 Saturdays, we have worked on improving the stability of e-conomic. Today, Saturday October 20th, will be the 3rd and last day of our maintenance. Today’s maintenance may cause short service disruptions on: Saturday October 20th, 2012 from 8 am – 2 pm CET We do not expect this maintenance to affect…

This is the third and final installment of our DevOps series and covers the DevOps process from monitoring to taking action, as well as some of the things we’ve learned along the way, plus ways for going forward. If you haven’t done so already, check out the first part and the second part of the…