Case Study: Bleacher Report achieves faster performance and reduced downtime with New Relic

Bleacher Report Hits a Home Run with Microservices and New Relic

Bleacher Report, a leading sports media site based in San Francisco reaching tens of millions of monthly visitors, needed to ensure consistent performance and scalability as it transitioned from a monolithic application to a growing microservices architecture. The challenge was to prevent costly downtime and poor user experience during high-volume events (like the Super Bowl), and to quickly pinpoint and resolve performance issues across many services.

By adopting New Relic APM and Plugins for software analytics, monitoring, alerts, load testing, and capacity planning, Bleacher Report gained visibility across its microservices, accelerated time-to-resolution, and prioritized the highest-impact performance fixes. The result: fewer servers and lower costs from more efficient code, reduced downtime during traffic spikes, and a better, more reliable experience for sports fans.

Bleacher Report

Eddie Dombrowski

Senior Software Engineer