Traffic up 700%. Servers Loaded. Apps Pulled.
We announced earlier today that we launched hike globally and the response has been phenomenal. Our goal was to have a ‘quiet global product launch’ and we’ve seen our messaging traffic spike up 700%...
View ArticleServers are up. Messaging a go. Apps out on 14th Nov.
With lots of hard work from the hikeapp team, we are now back up and running! Messaging is fast again. Try it, we kid not . The hike team’s going to take some some much needed rest and be live again...
View ArticleWaiting in Review
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View Articlehike service update
Over the last week, we’ve seen our traffic go up 10x. Its been a tough but super exciting week. We’ve had a few downtimes as we’ve scaled up. Most of it is now behind us. A quick overview as follows:...
View Article#1 Android App. Scaling up. Moving fast.
A few days ago, we hit #1 on the Android app store. By now you’ve seen the chart above as well. Our peak messaging traffic has grown 10x week on week. Yes ‘week on week’ for the last two weeks. We’re...
View ArticleThe Hike Analytics Story
It begins… One of our targets was to get daily reports out in a simple way so that the team could make decisions faster. Daily graphs were also required. It started with a CDH hadoop cluster on EC2....
View ArticleAutomation @ hike: Part I
‘Mobile Only’ is our motto at hike. We’re in a very competitive space of mobile messaging where there is a lot to be done. As a result, speed is of the utmost importance and thus being able to test a...
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