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Resgrid will be going down for maintenance on Saturday December 19th starting at 5PM Pacific time and lasting for approximately 3 hours. We hope to have the system back online and servicing requests sooner, but have to plan for the larger downtime window. During this downtime both the web and api services and all dispatching …
I wanted to give a status update on the Resgrid v3 update as it’s been a few since it was announced. We are in the final stages of testing and validation. Were hoping this phase goes well as that would put us right on track to getting the system out before the end of the …
Every 3 or so years we undertake a large refresh of our underlying architecture. The reason we invest this amount of time, effort and capital is to ensure our code, servers and mechanisms are staying current with latest trends, advancements and patterns. Our last major refresh was done in 2015/2016 and we knew we were …
Text messaging at scale can be a difficult endeavor. We have struggled through the years to strike the right balance of offering an affordable service and offering a top tier text messaging experience, sometimes it works other times not so much. With the rise of spammers, phishers and scammers, text messaging has gotten more difficult. …
To keep Resgrid up to date with the latest Technologies and allow for maximum efficiency and future stability we make the investment every 3 years or so to perform a major overhaul of the system. It’s time consuming, and not very glamorous work but it pays out dividends for the few years afterwards as we …
Updates, both new features and fixes are vital to keep software and services modern and have feature sets that evolve with the needs of users. For the Resgrid service we try and push out updates to production at least weekly if we can. Sometimes changes are bigger, require more testing or are not ready for …
It’s been a long time since we put out an update and I’ve received a few “Is Resgrid Closed?” questions, so instead of waiting till next year to make an announcement it’s better that I put it out there now. Resgrid is and has been fully open and will continue to be. Additionally, I’m proud …