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by kylerush 14y ago
The increase in performance that I mentioned is directly due to the performance increase. We built identical pages on both platforms and tested them against each other at the same moment in time. The only difference between the two pages wa
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by kylerush 14y ago
You tell me when and I'll be there:)
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by kylerush 14y ago
Ah! Sorry, misunderstood. In that case you are not wrong :)
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by kylerush 14y ago
If you think anyone on the campaign was being paid that handsomely you should look at our FEC reports. I took a 15% pay cut to work twice as many hours and so did all of my colleagues. The money went to where it was most needed and the proo
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by kylerush 14y ago
Address is pretty standard for anyone accepting payments. As for employer and occupation, we are legally required by the Federal Election Commission to do our best effort to gather the donor's employer and occupation. Doesn't have anything
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by kylerush 14y ago
Yes. It was very simple. We just put the URL to the vendor hosted platform's POST endpoint in the donation form's action attribute so that if you didn't have JavaScript the form would POST like a normal form.
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by kylerush 14y ago
The API was quite simple. Essentially it just processed a donation. It had some other functions to it that involved saving a users payment information to their account as well. Yes, the donation submission was an POST request executed with
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by kylerush 14y ago
Our Devops team configured Akamai so they would have specifics for you (@scottvdp). With most CDNs you have what's called a pull zone that points to your origin server on a different domain. So when the user requests something like cdndomai
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by kylerush 14y ago
Thanks for the interest! I am planning to write another blog post on all the UI optimization soon.
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by kylerush 14y ago
We had roughly 500 donation pages generated by Jekyll.
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Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform(kylerush.net)
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Super fast site architecture(kylerush.net)
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by kylerush 15y ago
Obama for America - Chicago, IL Obama for America (OFA) is hiring many frontend developers to work on barackobama.com. We are essentially a large startup that hit the ground running in April of this year. We need skilled frontend developers