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Jade Rubick

Engineering Manager, Core App

Software Engineer



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“We Don’t Have Time to Fix Things” – Tips from New Relic

In software, there’s often a war between getting stuff done and making the code perfect. Generally, our profession leans towards code quality, but we often blame the business for pushing us towards only getting features done. After all, that’s ultimately what customers care about – they don’t care how pretty our code is. So many [...]

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New Relic iOS App: Now With Yo Dawg Support

We’re proud to announce that the New Relic iOS app now displays your New Relic for Mobile Apps data. So if you have a mobile app, and want to monitor its performance, you can do so from your iPhone. The New Relic iOS App now includes network errors, API calls and number of active users [...]

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Long-Running Branches Considered Harmful

I work on the Core App team at New Relic. We’re responsible for running the product website and data collectors that collect all the juicy data you see on our charts and graphs. And recently we hit a milestone. Last week, we deployed to our site every weekday. This velocity allows us to be a more [...]

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New Feature Roundup: Live Charts, Explain Plans, and Heroku Dynos

Three new goodies from the New Relic engineering team that we like to share: Live charts Many of our customers leave large-screen monitors with New Relic dashboards running in a public place in their offices. We saw this tweet yesterday for example: “@adamse: @barryntech replaced a bunch of monitoring code and systems with a 55″ [...]

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Track external service performance with New Relic

Wouldn’t it be great if you could track the performance of web services you rely on? You would immediately know if the performance problem is because of your own code, or a remote service call. Well, starting today, tracking the performance of external services just got even easier. Here is an example from our own [...]

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