This is a guest post by Frederick Townes. Frederick was previously the Founding Chief Technical Officer of Mashable, one of the top independent media sites worldwide and is currently the organization’s Senior Technical Advisor. As a search / social media marketer and WordPress consultant, Frederick’s projects typically include WordPress as a core element. One of his largest [...]
It’s time for another installment of our “Browser Wars” blog series. Thanks to our Real User Monitoring (RUM) feature, we are able to periodically report on average browser speed experienced by the end users of the nearly 700,000 application instances monitored by New Relic. For the curious, New Relic monitors just over 1 million pageviews [...]
Many of you may have seen our periodic Ruby on Rails State of the Stack reports. As a SaaS company, we are in the fortunate position of having the ability to collect and analyze vast amounts of data from our 30,000 strong customer base. This includes not only performance metrics, but also data about the [...]
Traditionally, the concept of BIG DATA has been used to describe the mountains of user data collected by many large enterprises. (Think retail, Telco.) These companies learn what they can from the data and often resell it to marketing companies as a side business. What marketer wouldn’t want access to stats on buying behavior, television [...]
The following is a guest post from Stephen O’Grady, an analyst with RedMonk, the developer-focused analyst firm. He helped found RedMonk in 2002, and his job is to help companies understand developers better, and to help developers, period. Previously, Stephen worked for Keane, Dialogos (now defunct), Blue Hammock, and Illuminata. The full text of this [...]
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