At this end of the year we spend time improving performance and the issue alert and recovery systems. We have also taken the time to get some smaller things done that don’t make the top of the priority list, but are nonetheless annoyances and easy to do. The big things we have been working on are a system to merge duplicated customers (in progress) and the box scan tool.
Liane Moriarty’s ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ has retained the Best Seller position, selling 1671 copies in October. ‘Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life’ by Leigh Sales has come in second, selling 1387 copies. Following in a close third is Markus Zusak’s ‘Bridge of Clay’, which sold 1218 copies this month.
The concern most frequently voiced by Circle users is how the system will cope as the community grows. Through server scaling we can ensure the speed and reliability of the programme when the user load increases. Read on to find out how.
September has been spent pushing Accounts and Inwards Goods improvements to beta. As always, we would like you to test these changes for us to smooth out any problems and to properly prepare your staff. We have also added a green star to the Movers and PO Cart to help you make the most of Leading Edge deals.
Australian author Liane Mortiary’s latest novel ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ sold 2256 copies and is the September best seller. Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook ‘Ottolenghi: Simple’ sold 1560 copies, and ‘Lord of the Fleas (The Adventures of Dog Man #5)’ by Dav Pilkey is our third best seller, with 907 copies sold.
This August we have focussed on improving the speed of the system and management of the load on our servers. We are developing a range of features that benefit secondhand booksellers; the first of these is a local image and we would appreciate shops testing it on beta for us. If you would like to suggest software changes that would assist secondhand sellers you are more than welcome to add to our work in progress document.
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘104-Storey Treehouse’ is the Circle Best Seller this August with 1321 copies sold. ‘Scrublands’ by Chris Hammer has taken second place with 888 sales, and Scott Pape’s ‘Barefoot Investor’ remains in the top three, selling 854 copies.
July has been focused on improvements and getting ready for some major system infrastructure upgrades. Implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Google managed mysql and a load balancer. We are hoping to implement Google managed Mysql this weekend.
‘104-Storey Treehouse’, the latest instalment by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, has entered the Top 50 with an incredible 5659 sales since its release earlier in July. Scott Pape’s ‘Barefoot Investor’ has returned to second place, selling 957 copies, and Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ has slipped to third with 729 copies sold.