Case Study: ZURB achieves high-performance web apps and real-time performance visibility with New Relic RPM

How Leading Interactive Design Firm Zurb Delivers High Performance Web Apps

ZURB is a San Diego–based interaction design firm behind products used by clients like Facebook, eBay and Yahoo!, and it runs five customer-facing Rails apps (Notable, Verify, Bounce, Clue and Parade). As app usage and rapid feature development grew, ZURB needed a way to quickly diagnose performance problems caused by traffic spikes and code changes; their previous log-parsing approach only provided slow, after-the-fact data that lacked actionable detail.

ZURB installed New Relic RPM in minutes and gained real-time response-time data, detailed web-transaction breakdowns and flexible filters that made bottlenecks easy to spot (for example, a slow partial). The result: faster troubleshooting, smoother deployments, consistently better user experience, and more time for the team to focus on innovation and client work.

Zurb

Matt Kelly

Lead Engineer