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I’m extremely pleased to announce a new feature in Beanstalk in addition to Search that we launched last week (yes, we don’t sleep at Wildbit). Today we’re launching the new Code Viewer with support for more than 80 (eighty!) language syntaxes and a new improved look. Read on for the juicy details…

We’ve been working on a new search functionality in Beanstalk for a while and today I’m super excited to introduce it to you! Initially we thought about something simple for the first iteration, but I managed to make a full-featured indexed search of commits, scoped by repository or specific user. And there are a few tricks for power users also! Let me show you.

You may be wondering why we removed OpenID support in Beanstalk. While we love OpenID, it just did not fit with Beanstalk’s system. Since Subversion requires a user/pass (no OAuth love for svn yet), it makes OpenID less valuable.

Last Tuesday around 5pm EST Beanstalk experienced a pretty major outage. It reminded me of the days before we had Engine Yard around. While we do battle with performance issues and periodic slow downs, an outage like this is pretty rare. I want to explain what happened.

I’ve worked with Rails for 5 years, but since I live in Siberia it’s always pretty hard to find anyone like-minded in my area, except bears and php guys. So this year I wanted to attend to RailsConf badly, and luckily Chris said: sure, why not.

Recently one of our customers, TeamSupport, contacted us about integrating their product with Beanstalk. We decided that our new WebHook integration would be a great place to start, and a few weeks later they came back with a fully functioning integration.

In the beginning of the year we helped sponsor Space Cookies, An all-girls FIRST robotics team from the San Francisco Bay Area. They’ve been doing extremely well and were just interviewed on CNN for their competition in Atlanta. Really great work and best of luck!

Hi! I’m Dima Sabanin, Rails developer at Wildbit. I’ve been working on some cool new Beanstalk features that we’ll be releasing today. Let me give you a short guide on what we’ve added and changed.

Here is a nice write up from Jason Schrader on deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger. Jason explains how to use Beanstalk’s deployment feature to quickly and easily release to his server.

The last couple days were pretty rough for Beanstalk and our customers. We experience very high load across all of our slices, eventually determining that the performance problem was on our GFS drives that store our application and SVN data. Since we host with Engine Yard, we have nice Nagios warnings about high load, which started to come in on Tuesday. After lots of digging and help from the Engine Yard support team, we were able to narrow down the problems.

Beanstalk has been booming ever since we launched it. We’ve learned a lot in the last 18 months about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to promotion and advertising. I’d like to share some our experiences.

Today we upgraded storage levels on all Beanstalk plans, including 100mb on the Free Plan. The increase in storage includes:

Free: From 20Mb to 100Mb
Personal: From 1GB to 3GB
Team: From 3GB to 6GB
Business: From 8GB to 12GB
Corporate: From 15GB to 24GB

We’re looking to hire a Rails developer to help grow and support Beanstalk, our hosted Subversion app. A minimum of 2 years experience in building Rails apps is required.

This weekend we launched two important updates to Beanstalk: Upgraded to Subversion 1.5.5 and released major performance improvements to the web interface. Learn about the upgrades, how it effects your account, and some known issues.

You need code changes deployed to the development and production servers faster? You’re using releases? Sometimes you need it faster? Then read on…