Case Study: Mashable achieves superior performance for 40M monthly page views with New Relic RPM

How does Mashable maintain superior performance for a site with 40M monthly page views?

Mashable, a leading digital news and culture site that receives about 40 million monthly page views, runs a complex PHP and Ruby on Rails stack and needed to ensure consistently high end-user performance (Apdex) while its engineering team focused on the user experience. Lacking time to build an in-house APM and needing fast, granular visibility and alerting to catch issues before users did, they sought an on-demand solution that could segment and monitor many apps and machines across their open-source stack.

They implemented New Relic RPM, which deployed quickly and began pushing instrumentation data within an hour. RPM’s detailed error reporting, alerts, and visualizations let the team pinpoint edge-case and machine-specific issues fast, apply consistent monitoring policies, and substantially reduce administration time. The result was faster root-cause resolution, improved application reliability and user experience, and greater operational confidence as Mashable continues to scale.

Mashable

Frederick Townes

Chief Technology Officer