Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Here at Tatango, the engineering team is always keeping busy. Not only by implementing new features for the tatango website like voice and rss, but also by writing tools for other developers to be able to use our services.
There are two public back-end services that we have been working on ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Today we are excited to announce the launch of Tatango Voice.
Tatango Voice allows any group leader to record and send a free voice call to all the mobile phones within ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Amiel Martin (http://twitter.com/amiel), one of the Tatango engineers, built this pretty cool visualization of our groups' locations, and now that we've got some users, it's getting much cooler!
Each tick represents a single zipcode that has at least one Tatango group. In the future we'll modify it to have some way ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We just launched Tatango tonight, July 15 at 12:01AM PST. Tatango has been over a year in the making and is set to revolutionize group text messaging. With the launch of Tatango we need to look back and thank the many people that have got us to this point.
Family & ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Our backend is written in Ruby, and we can handle over 5,000 messages per second. Per messaging server.
Twitter, everyone's poster child for poor scaling capabilities, is written in Ruby, and using Rails, and because they've been having such a terrible time of keeping their system alive, a large majority of ...
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