Last month was a really busy month for us. We migrated our system to Azure, and we turned on the switch to all our of customers’ databases to point to Azure in early November. Then we get an invitation from Microsoft to participate in a few activities at Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conferences) 09 in Los Angeles. The first day of the PDC we announced our public [...]
On Nov 7, 12:55 AM GMT, we completed a full migration to Azure. The system was down for a few minutes, and up again, and now is pointing to Azure data center. We’re running two instances of Web Role, one instance of Worker Role, utilizing Azure Blob heavily, as well as Queue. In the near future, [...]
Cloud Computing is one of transformational technology shifts which recently gains momentum. As the economy suffers in the past years, business started looking at ways to reduce costs and boost the productivity. There are so much buzz about Cloud Computing, I’ll try to explain in much simpler term as possible, but it hopes still gives [...]
Today, Guppers is open for a limited public beta testing for Asia and Europe. Thanks to many of you who participated in private beta testings, also for those who signed up for public beta notifications. We’ve been using Guppers for quite sometimes internally as well, and we’re excited to share it with you. We’re looking forward to making Guppers [...]
(For a 60 second introduction to Guppers, please click here)
Well, it has been a few weeks since our last post. We had been busy preparing to go live. One of our release live criteria was to use Guppers day to day. We use it heavily at work, and personally I use it to communicate with my family that [...]
Hi Beta Testers,
Thank you for your interest. We regret to inform you that the service is not ready at this point. Please check our site or blog frequently for the latest update & development.
We will be back soon in a short while and stay tuned!
Guppers Team
With the advancement of technology, the world is increasingly connected, complex, compressed in time and space. Communication to the other side of the world can be done a few clicks away and we no longer tolerate waiting for a response in days; more often than not, we expect instantaneous answers. As Thomas Friedman argues in [...]
Well, it started out from here:
Then, it evolved into this:
Anyway, based on what is defined in couple of urban dictionaries, we can sort of sum up Guppers as Yes, Happy, and a Big Family. So, it is very much what we have been trying to do. We want to create a very [...]