New Relic Marketing Operations: Using Data to Shape the Stories We Tell
New Relic’s marketing data analyst Maria Stopak is a fan of data visualization guru Edward Tufte. “Tufte teaches that there are two key goals whenever you are presenting data: convey the story you want...
View ArticleConfused.com Keeps Up With the Cloud’s Pace of Change Using New Relic [Video]
A patchwork quilt is great for throwing over your bed or snuggling up with on the couch, but it’s probably not the best way to describe your application performance monitoring solutions. Just ask...
View ArticleMeasuring DevOps: Are Your Efforts Contributing to Business Success?
The ability to deliver software faster, with fewer defects, faster resolution of problems, better allocation of limited resources—there are plenty of reasons why the DevOps approach is gaining...
View ArticleUsing PaaS? Don’t Forget Application Monitoring
What do Snapchat, Khan Academy, and Product Hunt have in common? Besides having been startups at one point, they all run on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. Why did these companies and many...
View ArticleMeasuring DevOps: Why Customer Experience Matters
Sometimes a DevOps success story is not exactly what it seems. Consider this likely scenario: Let’s say a company—we’ll call it Gamechanger Industries—has a fantastic idea for an application that will...
View Article10 Fun Facts We Learned About The Woz at FutureStack15
Day 2 of FutureStack15 kicked off with a bang—and we’re not just talking about the sound of the champagne popping for our “Nerd of the Dog” mimosas. We had none other than Mr. Steve Wozniak himself...
View ArticleHow the HealthCare.gov Fix Transformed the Way Government Manages IT
Two years ago, at exactly the same time New Relic was hosting its inaugural FutureStack conference, our founder and CEO Lew Cirne got an unusual email. The subject line said, “WH needs help,” and the...
View ArticleMeasuring DevOps: Are You Tracking These App Performance KPIs?
DevOps pop quiz: What would you call the following scenario? a.) DevOps feat b.) DevOps fail c.) Too early to tell whether it’s a feat or a fail A company called Gamechanger Industries has an awesome...
View ArticleMeasuring DevOps: Are You Moving Fast Enough?
Nearly everyone agrees that speed is essential for DevOps success. Because even if you’re tracking the right application performance, customer experience, and business metrics to measure the progress...
View ArticleMeasuring DevOps: Metrics That Define Software Quality
Faster development and deployment of software is great, but if you think about it, the underlying premise of DevOps is kind of an oxymoron: faster and better software delivery. Haven’t these usually...
View ArticleA Data Nerd’s Guide to Email Marketing
Sending an email may not sound like rocket science, but depending on what you’re sending and why, it can sometimes require some data nerdery. Just ask Wing Sung, New Relic’s senior email marketing...
View ArticleGoing to Market Faster: Most Companies Are Deploying Code Weekly, Daily, or...
This time last year we brought you the results of our first ever survey on the state of data culture in software development. Well, it’s that time of year again and our new survey has unearthed some...
View ArticleData-Driven Culture: It’s Now a Job Expectation
We hope you enjoyed last week’s sneak peek at the results of our second annual data culture survey, in which we revealed that companies are now deploying code more frequently than in the past. This...
View ArticleThe Biggest Data Nerds, the Trickiest Metrics, and More Key Findings from Our...
What role does data play in your job? Is data something you look at every day, or hardly at all? Is it something your company absolutely couldn’t work without? These are the types of questions we...
View ArticleWho Are the Biggest Data Nerds? A Ranking by Role and Industry
At New Relic, we interact with data nerds on a daily basis. We know they exist in different companies and industries, and in different roles with different responsibilities. But we were curious: Who...
View ArticleNew Relic Ops: A Compilation of Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Over the past year, members of New Relic’s Site Engineering team have produced a ton of awesome and insightful content related to operations and DevOps, including blog posts, conference presentations,...
View ArticleRamping Up Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
0000When you think of the proponents of cloud products and services, most people envision scrappy startups, limber e-commerce companies, media giants, and other market innovators. Unless you’re a...
View ArticleFrom Computers to Comedy: Get Ready for Laughs with Kumail Nanjiani at...
0001You may know him from the hit HBO comedy series Silicon Valley as Dinesh, the talented coder with a dry sense of humor who you can often find bickering with Pied Piper co-worker Gilfoyle. But the...
View ArticleFutureStack16 Day 2 Keynote: Google, Giphy, and Pivotal Discuss Cloud at Scale
0001After an action-packed opening day of inspiring talks, informative training, and insights from Nate Silver at FutureStack16 in San Francisco, Day 2 kicked off with an all-star lineup of speakers...
View ArticleKumail Nanjiani Shares Insights on the Real Silicon Valley at FutureStack16
0000If you thought comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani was hilarious on TV, you should see him in person. As the closing keynote speaker at our FutureStack16 conference in San Francisco, Nanjiani, who...
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