We are happy to announce a new plan which uses solid-state drives as storage device. The SSD is set up as RAID 1 for high-availability. Thanks to the SSD, the performance of RhodeCode dramatically increases by the factor 8 to 10 because most operations within RhodeCode require direct access to Git or Mercurial metadata stored on the hard drive.
This week we focused on finishing the first iteration of the website which went silently online today. We already have more content for the site prepared, especially more feature pages, but we are a little bit behind at the graphics for them and will upload them at the beginning of next week.
Marcin and I strongly believe in transparency and openness. At RhodeCode we even put them into the DNA of the product (open source software) and the company (core principles). Our communication is also guided by being as informative, open and transparent as possible and so we thought about what could follow these principles but could still be so interesting that we by ourselves would read it.
Throughout today, we are rolling out an exciting new feature called side-by-side diffs. You can now far better see changes on several positions inside a file and you directly see where lines were added and deleted. Scrolling is synced between both windows and it makes browsing for changes far more visual and context-based. Side-by-side diffs are powered by Mergely and are pure Javascript and HTML5.
We are proud to announce the launch of the private beta of RhodeCode as a service (aka Hosted RhodeCode).
In the past few weeks, we were working so hard towards this important milestone and are now happy, but also tired and nervous about the things to come. I want to take this opportunity to share some information and give an outlook of things to come.