IT ops teams should adopt Agile practices to match dev teams. See why at our live webcast on Nov. 19 at 11 am PT
10 November 2009 at 12:08 pm | In Agile, Cloud Computing, Events, RPM in the News | Leave a CommentLive Webcast: “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management”
When: November 19, 11:00 am PT/14:00 pm ET
Speakers: Julie Craig, analyst, EMA; Ward Cunningham, CTO, AboutUs.org; Mike Malloy, vp marketing, New Relic
Registration: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/newrelic
Agile development and Cloud computing are enabling application development teams to become faster, more responsive, and more cost efficient. However, these development teams often finish their new web applications in record time only to wait weeks to go into production. In this one-hour webcast, the speakers will propose that IT operations adopt Agile techniques to ensure better collaboration with application development teams, improve time-to-market for business-critical systems, and keep pace with rapidly-changing market conditions.
Join us for a live webcast titled “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management” and find out how IT Operations teams can benefit from Agile practices. The live event will be held on November 19 at 11:00 Pacific Time/14:00 Eastern Time. Speakers include veteran industry analyst Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates and Ward Cunningham, CTO of AboutUs.org and co-author of “The Agile Manifesto.” They are joined by Mike Malloy, vice president of marketing at New Relic.
Attendees will learn:
•How some organizations are moving new business software features into production in days, not months.
•How Operations and Applications teams can work together to form an “agile alliance.”
•How the on-demand SaaS model, which has transformed business applications, is now poised to change IT application management as well.
•How Cloud-based application management improves your team’s agility and cost effectiveness—but also demands a new approach to application management and support.
Register today for “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management” on Thursday November 19, 11 a.m. PST/ 14:00 p.m. EST.
On the Edge, Part 1 – New RailsLab Episode in our Scaling Rails series introduces three ActiveRecord plugins
5 November 2009 at 2:38 pm | In Agile, Cloud Computing, Performance Tuning, Rails, RailsLab | Leave a CommentOn RailsLab we’ve just posted a new episode in the Scaling Rails series. In Episode 19, the first of a three-part series titled “On the Edge,” Gregg Pollack discusses three ActiveRecord plugins for database optimization. The first, Bullet, helps you reduce the number of ActiveRecord queries in your application by giving you alerts/notifications. Gregg takes us though specific examples of how a Bullet notification can lead you to take some relatively simple steps for database optimization.
Next, Gregg looks at Rails Indexes, a new tool that uses Rake tasks to, you guessed it, find missing Rails indexes. He shows us how to install the plugin and run the first Rake task, which finds all the models, looks at the relationship between them, and then looks at the database to see if there are any missing indexes. It then generates a migration. The second Rake task looks for the find method in the application and recommends indexes. Lastly, Gregg demonstrates Scrooge, a SQL query optimizer. By discovering columns in a table that aren’t being used in a particular view, Scrooge can identify places where your database queries are casting strings unnecessarily. After installing Scrooge, when you refresh the page the query only casts for only the columns needed in that view. Now you can optimize your SQL queries without having to change a single line of code.
Additional Resources
- Bullet by Richard Huang http://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet
- Rails Indexes by Elad Meidar http://github.com/eladmeidar/rails_indexes
- Scrooge http://github.com/methodmissing/scrooge
RailsLab on iTunes
Don’t forget to subscribe to the RailsLab podcast on iTunes where you’ll find the Scaling Rails series as well as our other RailsLab episodes. Download one, or the whole series and play them on your iPhone or computer.
New Relic and RightScale extend partnership to enable automatic, integrated monitoring of Java apps in the cloud
3 November 2009 at 3:10 pm | In Hosting, Java, News, Partners, RPM in the News | Leave a Comment
Today New Relic announced that we’ve broadened our partnership with RightScale to enable one-click activation of New Relic RPM for monitoring and troubleshooting Java applications deployed on RightScale’s platform.
Previously, RightScale and New Relic worked together to help organizations ensure successful Rails application deployments in the cloud. Recently, New Relic announced support for monitoring and management of Java applications and we are pleased to enhance that support by integrating RPM with RightScale’s leading platform. RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications with complete control and portability. To date, hundreds of thousands of deployments—from scalable websites to complex grid applications—have been launched on their platform.
RightScale CTO and founder Thorsten von Eicken explained today how the continued relationship with New Relic benefits RightScale customers. “As more organizations look to RightScale for supporting highly efficient and scalable Java application deployments, it’s important that we work with a company like New Relic to make application performance monitoring and management available to them. Organizations deploying either Java or Rails applications can now take advantage of our combined solutions through seamless integration to deliver a superior web experience to their end users.”
RightScale Customers, don’t wait for management!
Taking advantage of New Relic’s application management capabilities via integration with RightScale’s platform is fast and easy. RightScale customers simply find the “New Relic RPM” tab under “Report,” and sign up for a new account or enter existing New Relic credentials. Once verified, customers are given instructions for implementing New Relic, a process that takes less than two minutes. In no time, customers get the critical data they need to monitor and manage application performance.
Heroku includes New Relic RPM in its Add-On System, enabling one-click access to app management in the cloud
29 October 2009 at 8:35 am | In Cloud Computing, Hosting, News, Partners, Product Update, Rails | Leave a Comment
Great news for Heroku customers! You may have heard that Heroku has made available a new Add-On System that integrates several key capabilities for deploying and managing web apps in the cloud on Heroku’s leading platform. Today New Relic announced that it has been included as a key component of the Add-On System and that Heroku is making New Relic RPM Bronze available to all its customers free of charge.
As part of the new Add-On System, Heroku has tightly integrated New Relic RPM directly into its provision-less Ruby platform-as-a-service. With free, one-click access, organizations running applications on Heroku can now combine the benefits of Heroku’s ease of deployment and operation with the monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning capabilities of RPM Bronze.
Oren Teich, Heroku’s vice president of product management said today that “Integrating New Relic’s application management technology directly into Heroku’s core platform gives our customers even greater visibility into their applications and helps them to achieve optimal performance. With RPM built in to Heroku, developers can now instantly add, collaborate and share performance management tasks, building on the elegance and simplicity of Heroku for the Cloud.”
Heroku customers, don’t wait for management!
Available now, Heroku customers simply select New Relic RPM from Heroku’s add-ons catalog at http://addons.heroku.com. Once selected, customers can immediately begin monitoring their applications. New Relic RPM Bronze is available for free to all Heroku users. Future integrations will enable customers to upgrade to RPM Silver or Gold at preferred prices. Customers wishing to upgrade now may contact New Relic sales.
Stax Networks and New Relic team to provide integrated, on-demand Java app management in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
28 October 2009 at 9:14 am | In Cloud Computing, Hosting, Java, News, RPM in the News | Leave a Comment
Today we announced a new partnership with Stax Networks, a leading provider of Java platform-as-a-service offerings for applications deployed on the Amazon EC2 Cloud. As part of this partnership, New Relic RPM has been integrated into the Stax console, allowing Stax customers to automatically monitor and troubleshoot applications 24×7 as they are deployed on EC2.
New Relic is excited about our partnership with Stax. Just last week we announced our support for managing Java applications deployed on physical servers or in cloud environments such as Amazon EC2. As the only cloud-ready, on-demand performance management tool for Java applications, it’s important that we team with companies like Stax–leaders in cloud computing–to provide robust solutions for ensuring successful deployments.
Spike Washburn, Stax Networks CEO, said today “Organizations deploying Java applications on the Stax platform understand the value of having a responsive and flexible solution that can rapidly meet their needs. We’ve teamed with New Relic to offer application management services that give customers essential capabilities for monitoring application performance while successfully meeting their expectations for speed and agility. Additionally, New Relic RPM gives the Stax support team simultaneous visibility into our customers’ applications, allowing us to work collaboratively with them to ensure application health and availability.”
Customer of Stax Networks? Try New Relic RPM Today, it’s free!
If you are a Stax Networks customer, monitoring application performance in the Stax console is simple and automatic. Select the option to enable New Relic monitoring via the application configuration page in the Stax console. A wizard guides you through the RPM account setup process. Once New Relic monitoring is enabled, the application is launched with the New Relic agent automatically enabled, and the New Relic Dashboard will be displayed on the application’s Operations page.
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