Realtime Backbone.js views using Pusher

Ivan Vanderbyl on 25 November, 2011 in Development

I like feedback, I like to know that when I click a button that I will be presented with some — sometimes small — visual indication that my action succeeded. However with TestPilot we have a lot of things going on in the background, we use multiple background workers running in 3 different DCs, some have access to the database and others use a separate messaging layer to get messages back to the frontend.

How to survive an incubator

Ivan Vanderbyl on 16 November, 2011 in Business Angelcube

10 weeks ago we were accepted into the AngelCube business incubator, they gave us a cool $20K for some equity, provided us with mentoring, and introductions to investors.