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Lewis Hoffman
News

Why "Upstream Keepalive" is a Good Thing

As Dan mentioned on Monday, Tracker uses an architecture in which a large number of polling requests are serviced by web servers communicating with an in-memory cache, and over the past few weeks we’ve hit a number of resource limits on our cache servers. Yesterday we found a small change that had a big impact on this resource load. Read more...

Dan Podsedly
News

Recent Pivotal Tracker Outages

We’ve had a number of brief outages and/or periods of degraded performance in the last few weeks. I’d like to shed some light on what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to prevent them in the future. Read more...

Dan Podsedly

New in Pivotal Tracker: Reply to Emails, Delete Comments, and Browse Public Projects!

New in Pivotal Tracker: Reply to Emails, Delete Comments, and Browse Public Projects! blog post featured image

Team collaboration with Pivotal Tracker just got better. You can now post comments to stories right from your inbox by replying to any story notification email. That’s not all that’s new in this update—we’ve also added the ability to delete unwanted story comments, you can add extra notes like company address or tax ID to your billing receipts, and there’s a new public projects directory. Read more...

Dan Podsedly
Updates

New in Tracker: Updated Look and Google Accounts Sign-in

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The Tracker team has been busy since the hosting move last month. We’ve shifted our focus from improving Tracker’s performance and stability, to core product enhancement. This update introduces an updated visual design, as well the first wave of usability improvements. We’ve also added some new features, including the ability to sign in to Tracker with your Google Account. Read more...