As the first work week of 2012 draws to a close, here's a round-up of some interesting news items...
- Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net, describes the five myths of the enterprise startup .
- Patrick Meenan describes what happens when good back-ends go bad .
- Service Angle explains why app management is becoming a differentiator for service providers.
- Ken Cochrane shows us how to use New Relic with supervisord and gunicorn.
Join us on Thursday, January 5 th as we host the first San Francisco OpenStack Meetup of 2012. As we announced last month, New Relic is now part of the OpenStack community and we look forward to meeting other members. The group has lined up some great speakers to get us going in the New Year:
Schedule:
6:30 pm: Food, Drink, and Networking
7:15 pm: Kieran Lal , Acquia's Technical Director of Business development on "Moving 200 Music…
This week's community news explains how businesses are really using APIs, has more predictions for 2012, and contains helpful tips from our partners.
- Engine Yard's Ines Sombra gives us best practices for Mongo DB.
- The Verge spends 5 minutes with Robert Scoble.
- A recent report by Mobile Cloud Computing explains why the mobile cloud will generate more than $ 45 Billion by 2016.
- Apigee and Read Write Web tell us why businesses …
Great news for organizations leveraging open source cloud computing! Today we announced that New Relic has joined the OpenStack™ community. OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and technologists producing the open standard cloud-computing platform for both public and private clouds. Now organizations deploying web applications on OpenStack can use New Relic to automatically monitor their apps in production, and proactively identify and eliminate potential bottlenecks.
- Slicehost VPS Hosting is now Rackspace Cloud Servers hosting - Blog: Opening the Rackspace Cloud
- Opscode Blog: enStratus and Opscode Announce Partnership
- elc technologies - Blog : Ruby on Rails, iPhone, Flash, Agile, Interactive Design: The Linux of The Cloud? Rackspace OpenStack.
- High Scalability: PaaS on OpenStack - Run Applications on Any Cloud, Any Time Using Any Thing
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Python - The Secret Sauce in the Open Cloud
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ruby, the Cloud, and Open Standards
You may have noticed some updates we made to our PHP agent last week:
- Automatic Real User Monitoring : The new auto-RUM mechanism supports all frameworks, not just Drupal and WordPress. As a result, it is significantly more reliable as modules and other changes to the framework no longer impact how we insert the RUM header and footer. If you previously had to manually insert RUM headers and footers, we encourage you to re-enable auto-RUM and comment out your existing manual calls. …
- Developing with Style: Generate Task for CakePHP 1.2
- Zen and the Art of Programming: The most important programming language today
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Win a Trip to Ireland on Engine Yard
- Rowan Hick: Franken-php-rails-apache-stein
- occasionally useful: Web server output generation design patterns
- The "Tech. Arch.": Creating Rich Interactive Web Apps With KnockoutJS - Part 1
Don't worry if you missed this week's webcast with our partner OpenLogic . The archived version of How to Deploy and Monitor Open Source and Apps in the Cloud is now available.
For more information, check out the OpenLogic partner page or contact us if you have any questions.
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Undertone, Box.net, Wiredrive, Joyent, DeviantART, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7
- Opscode Blog: Data Driven Application Deployment with Chef
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #084: 06/24/2009
Find out why DevOps is not a job description, how we've up-ended tradition, and the state of the data center:
- Find out how Dropbox optimized their Python code.
- O'Reilly and Joshua Bixby explain why you can't get away with a bad mobile experience anymore.
- Michael Yuan gives us a Java developer's guide to PaaS .
- Learn why DevOps is a state of mind, not a job description.
- Forbes wri …
MercadoLibre is the largest eCommerce platform and marketplace in Latin America. The company was incorporated in 1999 and had its IPO in 2007. It operates in fourteen countries and is the leading eCommerce site in each of them. The company has an ecosystem of four business units - the MercadoLibre Marketplace , the MercadoPago payments solution, the MercadoClics advertising program, and the MercadoShops online stores solution.
- Ruby Inside: Check Out The Companies That Make Ruby Inside Possible
- Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Day 1
- Heroku: New Relic RPM Silver & Gold Add-on
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 7-9-09
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #730
- Rails Inside: Seed: A New Rails Powered Open Source CMS With In-Page Admin Interface
Envato is an Australian start-up whose mission is to "help people earn and learn online." The company offers a network of sites where creative professionals can hone their skills and find new customers for their work. The Envato Marketplaces are home to a thriving community of authors and buyers. With over 1 million members, they include ActiveDen and ThemeForest , the largest marketplaces for Adobe Flash files and WordPress themes. The Envato Tuts …
- High Scalability: New Relic Architecture - Collecting 20+ Billion Metrics a Day
- Rails Inside: Seed: A New Rails Powered Open Source CMS With In-Page Admin Interface
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #572
- RailsLab: Yehuda Katz & Justin George Talk Rails 3
- Heroku: New Relic RPM Silver & Gold Add-on
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: EventMachine and Passenger
As companies turn to the cloud to rapidly deploy and scale their applications, they need management and monitoring tools to ensure they meet service level requirements. Basic monitoring from cloud infrastructure providers isn't enough. Organizations need a tool that provides a 360-degree view of application performance so they can measure customer experience and ensure performance across the cloud and technology stacks.
Tomorrow, we will team with OpenLogic to deliver a joint webcast …