

An Early Load Test
Our end-users who’ve had a chance to play with the CSR component of MyChattanooga have commented on how fast it is. Music to our ears!
Our end-users who’ve had a chance to play with the CSR component of MyChattanooga have commented on how fast it is. Music to our ears!
Six months ago, I’m not sure anyone on our team would have considered “Javascript” as a strong enough skill for resume or LinkedIn-profile inclusion. Even
It’s easy to make the most popular choice, but the popular choice isn’t always the most correct. Sometimes you have to step out on a
Yesterday I commented on Slack that we would ditch the message queue and do direct API calls everywhere. That will solve some minor problems that we’ve known of all along and facilitate better front-end functionality going forward.
We have a small team and we’re trying to pull off a grand endeavour, and with that in mind, I’ve tried to keep to technologies that we already know whenever possible. That means occasionally making concessions between how I might suggest we do something in the proverbial “perfect world” versus the tools we might use to ensure success.
The City of Chattanooga’s primary website, chattanooga.gov, was developed more than eight years ago, before smartphones were ubiquitous. It has eight-plus years of editing by hundreds of hands, and it’s dated, bloated, and in desperate need of an overhaul.
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