Announcing Contextual Help – let us help you more
Many web apps have a hard time giving their users help when they need it most. We’re all pretty darn good at designing for the happy path, but what happens when our users stray from that? Do we help...
View ArticleHow We Tune Our Own App Using RUM Data
Around here we drink our own champagne and we use New Relic to tune New Relic. We recently set some fairly aggressive performance standards for ourselves by lowering our end user Apdex-T value to 2.4...
View ArticleHow Do You Measure Up? Introducing the App Speed Index
At New Relic, we take pride in what we do. We help our customers monitor their sites and steadily improve the performance of their web apps. But for our customers (as well as ourselves) performance...
View ArticleMore App Speed Index Data for More People
You’ve asked for it, and we’ve heard you! Many people have said that the App Speed Index feature would be way more useful if the barrier to entry was lower. 20 pages per minute of end-user througput is...
View ArticleI’m Proud of My Company Because We Sponsor Cool Events Like RailsGirls Portland!
One of the great things about working at New Relic is that the company is very supportive of its employees’ lives outside of work. One example is that part of our benefits package is paid service days...
View ArticleWe’re Putting Time On Your Side
It’s been a busy week here at New Relic. Shaving off our mustaches takes a lot of time. But in between bouts of razor burn, we’ve also been shipping new features. Today we launched a new time picker....
View ArticleUnicorn Rawk: Kick GC Out of the Band
There’s been a lot of talk about the improvements in Ruby 2.0′s Garbage Collection performance. That’s a great thing, because GC in older versions of Ruby wasn’t very performant. Most of the...
View ArticleEnforcing Design Conventions in Code: When Both Engineers and Designers Win
It’s common to think of design and engineering as separate disciplines. In many ways, they’re distinct — the nouns and verbs they use to map their respective domains are quite different — but there’s a...
View ArticleNew Relic Reinvents How We Build Software [Video]
0000New Relic just did something that few companies our size have ever done: We reinvented the process of how we build software. And so far it’s making our engineers very happy. Check out Project...
View ArticleHow to Create a Team-Health Assessment for Engineering Organizations
This post is adapted from a New Relic FutureTalk called Team Health Assessments: Why and How. Honey Darling, a senior software engineering manager for the New Relic Browser team, contributed to that...
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