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Which Browsers are the Fastest? [Real User Performance Data]

We’ve come quite a long way since introducing RUM (Real User Monitoring) about a year ago. Being the first app performance company to build real user monitoring as a core, native feature of application performance management, we are currently monitoring about 750 million page views a day, 5 billion a week and 20 billion a month [...]

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PyCon Party 2012: New sponsors Rackspace and YouTube join Skullcandy, Loggly and New Relic for epic event

PyCon is always a special event and 2012 promises to be no different. Especially with the announcement that Loggly, New Relic, Rackspace, Skullcandy and YouTube are joining forces to throw a party on Friday March 9th, from 7 – 9 pm at the Hyatt (not the Hilton as previously stated). What better way to cap [...]

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Net Lag: The Fallacy of Zero Latency and the Web

You can tell a lot about people by the way they handle a trip to the airport. For some, the goal is to avoid waiting in the terminal with the rest of the cattle. They’ll try to cut it as close as possible and assume everything will go smoothly, without a hitch. Others are more [...]

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Preparing for the Unexpected: Revisiting the Fallacies of Distributed Computing in the Cloud – Network Reliability Isn’t Guaranteed

It’s only the second week of the New Year, and we’re already tired of all this 2012 apocalypse hoopla – with 11 more months yet to go. We got our fill of doomsday predictions last year; forecasting a global catastrophe is kind of tedious at this point. But if there’s any benefit to these prophecies, [...]

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The Death of WebSphere and WebLogic App Servers? New Infographic shows the Rise of OSS Java

This past September we released one of our Ruby on Rails State of the Stack reports, which presents stats on Ruby usage among our customers. The report shows the most commonly deployed versions of Ruby, the top gems used, the most commonly used app containers, etc. We got to thinking that this might be interesting [...]

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