Case Study: Quizlet achieves real-time performance visibility and faster issue resolution with New Relic

For Online Learning Innovator Quizlet, Academic Performance and Web Performance Go Hand in Hand

Quizlet, a rapidly growing online education platform that attracts millions of users and hosts millions of study sets, faced mounting pressure to scale while maintaining fast page loads and reliable storage for user data. With an impatient student audience and exponential traffic growth, the company needed a cloud provider that could scale instantly and analytics that could diagnose performance problems in near real time.

Quizlet deployed Joyent SmartMachines for a flexible, high‑performance cloud stack and New Relic (with DTrace) for deep application monitoring and proactive alerts. The combination delivered near-real-time visibility, transaction-level tracing, sub‑150ms server response targets, fewer user‑reported outages, faster root‑cause diagnosis, and more capacity to focus on product improvements as the site scaled.

Quizlet

Dave Margulius

CEO