The graph pretty much tells the story. Things are much better after upgrading to a server with two more CPUs! You can see that the latencies are below their old levels starting on the 19th.
This afternoon I dusted off my old Bank Teller simulation that I use in Data …
more ...Last tuesday my cloud infrastructure provider needed to reboot the physical HyperVisor where my virtual machine lives in order to upgrade the underlying operating system with fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. I was a bit worried as they said it would take 15 minutes but could …
With just about 10 days until classes start, my focus must switch to prep, teaching, and the inevitable committee and faculty meetings. But I wanted to take some time to document a few highlights of the summer. One of the biggest highlights is a redesigned instructor interface for Runestone, that …
more ...Back in March I had the following conversation with my friend Paul Resnick. “Should we organize a hack-week for runestone?” Paul asked. “Uhmmm sure,” I said wondering to myself who would come? Not that I lacked enthusiasm for the idea, after all what could be better than a week of …
more ...With the latest release of the Runestone Tools for this Fall I added a feature that will allow you to edit the table of contents file for your course. This lets you do two really nice things:
This interview with Michael Kennedy was really fun to record, and a nice overview of some of the work I have been doing over the past few years. The podcast is well worth subscribing and listening to as he talks to a lot of interesting people about good Python packages …
more ...As I am working through the new architecture for the Runestone Interactive server I wanted to make sure that I had my authentication model working right from the beginning. The goals for the architecture are as follows: * I want people to be able to write and host the static parts …
more ...As part of the grand reorganization of the various tools and software associated with the Runestone Interactive project I am planning to also write a series of tutorials to help people get started. The major aspects of this reorganization are discussed in detail in the Project Roadmap, but for …
more ...It has been an exciting year for the Runestone Interactive project. Our Fall 2014 daily use has more than doubled that of Fall 2013, as we are serving nearly 8000 unique visitors a day on average on the interactivepython.org …
School is underway again, and now that we are a few weeks in to the semester I wanted to take a minute to talk about growth. Last year about this time things were still pretty chaotic, with the unexpected success of the books the servers were laboring intensely to keep …
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