david rasch - making stuff work » accomplishments http://www.davidrasch.com Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:53:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 2007 iContact and personal redux http://www.davidrasch.com/2007/12/24/2007-icontact-and-personal-redux/ http://www.davidrasch.com/2007/12/24/2007-icontact-and-personal-redux/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:24:04 +0000 drasch http://www.davidrasch.com/2007/12/24/2007-redux/ iContact Accomplishments

Team grew from 10 to 22 Down from 12 mail servers to 10! From Four database clusters to six Built and launched a Community From 50-80+servers Created and Grew Infrastructure team from 2 people to 9 people under Carl’s leadership Alan and Geoff reoriented our development teams to create the Middleware and . . . → Read More: 2007 iContact and personal redux]]> iContact Accomplishments

  • Team grew from 10 to 22
  • Down from 12 mail servers to 10!
  • From Four database clusters to six
  • Built and launched a Community
  • From 50-80+servers
  • Created and Grew Infrastructure team from 2 people to 9 people under Carl’s leadership
  • Alan and Geoff reoriented our development teams to create the Middleware and User-experience teams
  • Fixed 1048 bugs, (of 1683 total resolved)
  • 3102 logged hours of development time vs. 2255 hours of development time in 2006
  • 2393 Maint Tickets vs. 1194 in 2006
  • 1141 Systems/Helpdesk Tickets vs. 1137 in 2006 (amazing, a difference of only 4 tickets)
  • 33k lines of code added to the Publisher (170k lines of core code of the Publisher vs 147k at the end of 2006)
  • 71k LOC created in the Community (71k LOC in the Community vs. 266 at the end of 2006)
  • 1778 commits to the Publisher tool (that’s a lot of code reviews)

At home

  • We’ve taken 3001 photos totaling 3.6 GB
  • We’ve taken 327 movies totaling 9.4 GB
  • I’ve archived 1180 emails totaling 263 MB (theoretically, I read most of these)
  • I’ve Traded 9191 Instant messages
  • I’ve written 25 blog entries (up until this one)
  • We’ve helped at least 22 dogs find new homes (probably many more, but I’m counting those I have photos of)
  • DRNA spent over $8,528 vetting these dogs
  • Rented 103 movies from Netflix (approximately 200 hours of our year)
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From 3500-7200+ customers From one database cluster to four From eight mail servers to 12 Creating . . . → Read More: 2006 IntelliContact Accomplishments]]> I decided to make list of things of which I’ve been a part of accomplishing over the last twelve months at IntelliContact not any without assistance, and some for which I’m only happy to have had a role.

  • From 3500-7200+ customers
  • From one database cluster to four
  • From eight mail servers to 12
  • Creating and maturing the development processing inspired by good things from Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Flickr (credit to Geoff and Alan)
  • One-click deployment tool
  • Bug triage – bugs find their way to solution instead of hanging in purgatory forever
  • Grown from 20 to 50 servers
  • Two four-person development teams
  • From 1.5 to 2.5 Systems people
  • Event-based Billing system (almost all credit here goes to Michael Best)
  • Got rid of Albatross upgrade code
  • Two mailhandlers in two locations
  • Agnification (web servers can serve up from any DB cluster)
  • Message desmurfing interface (credit to Vaughn)
  • RSS feeds
  • Public Newsletter Archive
  • Role-based servers (credit to Jay)
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