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Optimizing Application Performance with New Relic for iOS

Tutorial • Intermediate

New Relic has gained name and fame for being the number one solution for monitoring application performance. It tells you what you need to know about your...

Bart Jacobs • 29 Apr 2014
Ruby on Rails

Full Text Search in Rails

Tutorial • Intermediate

Using simple SQL queries to retrieve data is, at times, not the most efficient and scalable way of performing search operations in an application. Using a...

Joyce Echessa • 28 Apr 2014
Ruby on Rails

How to Use New Relic With PHP & WordPress

Tutorial • Beginner

Today we will look at how to monitor a PHP application using New Relic. More specifically we will set up a basic WordPress installation and get some...

Alan Skorkin • 14 Apr 2014
Ruby on Rails

Using New Relic to Monitor Your Android App

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the last two years, New Relic has focused hard on building out a solution for monitoring the performance of mobile apps. In this tutorial, we will look at...

Alan Skorkin • 26 Mar 2014
Ruby on Rails

Testing Your Ruby Code With Guard, RSpec & Pry: Part 2

Tutorial • Intermediate

Continue learning test-driven development in Ruby with Guard, RSpec and Pry.

Mark McDonnell • 19 Mar 2014
Ruby on Rails

Testing Your Ruby Code With Guard, RSpec & Pry

Tutorial • Beginner

Learn the basics of test-driven development in Ruby along with many common web development tools such as Guard, RSpec, and Pry, among others.

Mark McDonnell • 11 Mar 2014
Ruby on Rails

How to Use New Relic Custom Dashboards & Why You'd Want To

Tutorial • Intermediate

Today we're going to look at New Relic custom dashboards. Specifically, I will show you three ways that I tend to use custom dashboards:

Alan Skorkin • 27 Jan 2014
Ruby on Rails

Writing Robust Web Applications: The Lost Art of Exception Handling

Tutorial • Beginner

As developers, we want the applications we build to be resilient when it comes to failure, but how do you achieve this goal? If you believe the hype,...

Alan Skorkin • 6 Jan 2014
Ruby on Rails

Using New Relic Custom Metrics to Monitor All the Things

Tutorial • Beginner

When you first get introduced to New Relic, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the features. But like with most tools, as you slowly climb the learning curve...

Alan Skorkin • 30 Dec 2013
Ruby on Rails

New Relic & JMeter - Perfect Performance Testing

Tutorial • Intermediate

Following on from the great introductory articles featured recently on Nettuts+, this article looks to show how you can take New Relic to the next level. As...

David Sale • 30 Sep 2013
Ruby on Rails

5 Reasons Why New Relic Is a Developer's Best Friend

Tutorial • Beginner

Once you start digging around New Relic you begin to realise just how many interesting features the service has to help monitor the performance and health of...

Alan Skorkin • 27 Sep 2013
Ruby on Rails

Getting Started With New Relic in 30 Minutes

Tutorial • Beginner

I remember working on a Rails app a few years ago and someone floated the idea of using this new service that had appeared on the scene. It was called New...

Alan Skorkin • 25 Sep 2013