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New Relic
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New Relic is the company blog at blog.newrelic.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2010, 140 different Hacker News readers have linked it 223 times, most often “Ruby on Rails - State of the Stack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Ruby on Rails - State of the Stack4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-09-28
- How HTTP/2 Is Changing Web Performance Best Practices3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-09
- WordPress Performance Optimization3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-09
- Becoming a kick-ass programmer: actionable advice2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
- Ruby Infographic(based off NewRelic Data)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-18
- Reference Graphs as Tools for Refactoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-08
- DevOps Leaders to Follow on Twitter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-20
- How New Relic Used Docker to Solve Thorny Deployment Issues2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-13
- Automating Docker Image Builds with Continuous Integration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21
- Coding tasks you should probably not write yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-08
What Hacker News says?
"The time for Dockers and containers isn't quite today, but it's very close." Hmmm ... tell that to AirBnb ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/future-app-deployment/ ), New Relic ( https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/12/docker-centurion/ ) and Spotify ( https://blog.docker.com/2014/06/dockercon-video-docket-at-sp... ) It is a young technology, but moving quickly. Just 10 years ago, YouTube wasn't owned by Google yet and we didn…
Comment linking /2014/08/12/docker-centurion/
on “Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production”Submitted New Relic now supports Node.js as a story · 93 points
HN discussion> Also, would like to hear your thoughts on building a new system vs building on top of the many available open source medical systems. Thanks for asking. I'm sorry in advance that this reply is lengthy. I'll try to be succinct. Starting HospitalRun in 2014 was a very intentional, deeply-considered decision on our part, made after reviewing a wide spectrum of the available open source and commercial solutions for ou…
Comment linking /2013/11/19/cure-uganda-improving-care-global-electronic-medical-records/
on “Open source software for developing world hospitals”Submitted Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now as a story · 70 points
HN discussionCreator of ack here. The three biggest reasons to use grepalikes is not necessarily the time to execute the search, but 1) The reduced amount of typing. It's much faster to type "ack foo --ruby" than it is to type "find . -name '* .rb' | xargs grep foo" 2) Better filetype matching, because ack and ag check things beyond just file extensions. ack's --ruby flag checks for *.rb and Rakefile and "ruby" appearing in the…
Comment linking /2015/01/28/grep-ack-ag/
on “Skip grep, use awk”Submitted Announcing JS Error Reporting and Ajax Timing in New Relic as a story · 64 points
HN discussionNew Relic's CEO has some tips on how to keep coding: http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/11/sxsw-coding-ceo-recap/ 1. Surround yourself with amazing people. 2. Carve out specific times for development work. 3. Focus on high-value projects. 4. Make it clear why a coding CEO is good for the company.
Comment linking /2014/03/11/sxsw-coding-ceo-recap/
on “Programming Is a Dead End Job”Submitted Secrets you should have learned before your first programming job as a story · 42 points
HN discussion"If wanting to know up front if this is designed for the future or the past is an edge case, it's a pretty crowded edge. Python 3 was released eight years ago" good point: a quick search reveals that Py2.x is still in a lot of legacy code (dependencies -- the big one), so I always check first: - https://python3wos.appspot.com/ - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30751668/python-2-vs-pyth... - http://hiltmon.com/blo…
Comment linking /2014/01/21/python-3-adoption-web-apps/
on “Bokeh – a Python interactive visualization library”Submitted The Fallacies of Distributed Computing Reborn: The Cloud Era as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThis is called out of band GC. We've been doing it for years in Ruby with Unicorn https://blog.newrelic.com/2013/05/28/unicorn-rawk-kick-gc-ou... However when the ruby community moved to Puma which is based on both processes and threads it was needed less. Not that this is rocket science (it's still far behind the JVM and .NET), I assume a hybrid process/thread model is something that hadn't reached a critical mass…
Comment linking /2013/05/28/unicorn-rawk-kick-gc-out-of-the-band/
on “Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram”Submitted Post-mortem on New Relic's Move to Ruby 1.9 as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSQLite is the Rails default, in fact. In October 2013, NewRelic reported that 53% of their customers are using PostgreSQL: http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/10/10/infographic-state-stack-... In July 2014, Planet Argon's Rails survey showed a surge in preference for PostgreSQL since 2012: http://rails-hosting.com/Results/2014/index.html#Database Neither captures the distribution of usage from small- to large-scale apps,…
Comment linking /2013/10/10/infographic-state-stack-ruby-edition/
on “Making MySQL Better at GitHub”Submitted Habits of Highly Successful Site Reliability Engineers as a story · 24 points
HN discussionConceptually, I think everyone at the U.S. Digital Service would be comfortable with working on a remote team. Many of us have done it, and since we're scattered across agencies, the group itself operates in a fairly distributed fashion on a day-to-day basis. Remote work does work at 18F, where they are often shipping projects that are self-contained and executed in-house. It's also a lot easier to build a remote-fr…
Comment linking /2014/03/26/depth-look-team-saved-healthcare-gov/
on “Back to SF After the U.S. Digital Service”Submitted New Relic Price Updates as a story · 19 points
HN discussionIf anyone wants to help fix the problem, I suggest the newly formed USDS. There are a lot of ex-Google people involved trying to help clean up and secure IT infrastructure in the Government. I spoke with someone who did a short stint with them and it sounds like they're actually being empowered to fix things. https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser... Mike Dickerson gave a really good in-depth t…
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on “U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security”Submitted Ruby on Rails - State of the Stack as a story · 10 points
HN discussionas has NewRelic. https://blog.newrelic.com/2017/09/13/distributed-tracing-ope...
Comment linking /2017/09/13/distributed-tracing-opentracing/
on “OpenTracing: A vendor-neutral open standard for distributed network tracing”Submitted How To Store Over 200 Billion Data Points a Day to Disk as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHmm, it looks like they have changed their pricing strategy. When I first signed up it was no strings attached free as a loss-leader to move you towards using their application monitoring products. https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-he... So far I appear to still be grandfathered into the the free server plan? Anyways, I guess you can disregard my original comment.
Comment linking /2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-here/
on “How I built a profitable bootstrapped side project”Submitted Python for the Enterprise: Holy Grail or Flying Circus? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMany Go programmers refer to themselves as Gophers actually after the mascot the same way university students might refer to them selves as Jaguars, Titians, or Aggies. It's hard to google a good example but here's one I found: > A creative and passionate community of Go developers and users (“Gophers”) has grown up around the language, and today there are U.S. Go conferences, European Go conferences, […] even a gro…
Comment linking /technology/golang-experts-follow-online/
on “Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed”Submitted Containerizing Databases at New Relic: What We Learned as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInteresting to read the (linked) article on how they actually built the support: http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/10/22/new-relic-node-js-apps/ Since node's native support won't land until 0.12, does anyone know what the downsides of the polyfill are? Is there a much larger performance hit?
Comment linking /2013/10/22/new-relic-node-js-apps/
on “New Relic now supports Node.js”Submitted State of the Ruby stack as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIs it though? Depends if you're triggering it six times a year or six times a day. Some companies pride themselves on how often they deploy code to production [1]. And whether your SPA is something like Google Docs where a user could plausibly have the same document open for a week or more. [1] https://blog.newrelic.com/technology/data-culture-survey-res...
Comment linking /technology/data-culture-survey-results-faster-deployment/
on “How do most SPAs handle breaking API schema changes?”Submitted Optimizing k-means clustering for time series data as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRails 3.x will maintain 1.8.7 support. Rails 4 will drop Ruby 1.8 for good. Check out how quickly 1.9.2 has been adopted in production Rails apps: http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/09/28/state-of-the-stack-a-rub...
Comment linking /2011/09/28/state-of-the-stack-a-ruby-on-rails-benchmarking-report-sept-2011/
on “Work has started on Ruby 2.0”Submitted Total Cost of Hosting Ownership: What Goes into It? as a story · 6 points
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