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DrupalCon 2013: Introducing Drupal Hooks and Views Metrics

We <3 Drupal! DrupalCon has returned to Portland. And naturally we’re very excited about our most recent release of the New Relic PHP agent. The Drupal ecosystem has been a huge part of New Relic’s success. The ‘come for the software, stay for the community’ aspect of Drupal makes it one of the busiest and enthusiastic [...]

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Ready for DrupalCon 2013

Next week DrupalCon 2013 is happening right in the backyard of our Engineering HQ in Portland. And we’ve been busy crafting new Drupal specific improvements to our PHP agent in time for the conference. (Those updates came out Wednesday!) But before we talk about those great enhancements, let’s take a look at the other major [...]

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GiftCard.com Saves 25 Percent in Seasonal Compute Costs with Help from New Relic

Founded in 2004, GiftCard.com came from the idea that a gift card could be as unique as the individual receiving it. Today, it’s the largest online store focused solely on gift cards, with hundreds of brands and thousands of designs available for its customers. Record Growth Presents Serious Challenges The company has experienced 100% year-over-year [...]

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How to Speed Up WordPress in 7 Easy Steps

Last month, we discussed the importance of implementing a CDN to speed up your site content. Sticking with this theme, let’s take a closer look at how you can improve the performance of your WordPress blog or website. There are nearly 59 million active WordPress blogs, yielding just over 29 million new posts every month. That’s [...]

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WordPress Performance Optimization

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 [...]

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