Shopify Uses New Relic RPM to Ready its 3000 Online Stores for Black Friday
Rails performance management tool optimizes e-commerce sites for the biggest shopping day of the year.
San Francisco, California and Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) November 28, 2008 -- New Relic, Inc., the leading provider of Ruby on Rails application performance management solutions, today announced that one of its premier customers, Shopify, is using RPM to optimize performance for its 3000 online stores in preparation for "Black Friday," the busiest day of the year for online shopping.
Shopify provides turn-key e-commerce stores which enable entrepreneurs and retailers to rapidly create an attractive and high-performing internet store. Shopify hosts more than 3000 e-commerce stores including TeslaMotors.com, PamelaAnderson.com, Evisu.com, OpenMoko.com, RobinPiccone.com and many more.
"Shopify uses Ruby on Rails to create their clients' web stores because it enables them to rapidly create and modify online stores with a rich user experience, " said Lewis Cirne, founder and CEO of New Relic. "We are very pleased to be helping Shopify's many clients this holiday season. RPM is the leading solution for monitoring Rails website performance, and for detecting and solving problems. Using RPM will mean more sales, happier online customers, and greater revenues for these businesses."
"We expect traffic to our server farm to increase by 2-4 times during the holiday sale period" said Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify. "Our clients have created e-commerce stores selling everything from high tech gadgets to clothes, shoes, and vip tickets. They will want their stores to perform well as traffic peaks during the critical holiday season. Our entire tech team is using New Relic's RPM to ensure high responsiveness. RPM saves us many thousands of dollars by helping us get the most out of our hardware."
About RPM™
New Relic offers RPM™, a subscription-based Rails Performance Management solution that enables developers to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose and fix application performance problems in real time. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is currently used by more than 950 customers managing more than 10,000 application instances. The real-time metrics provided through New Relic RPM are presented in the context of the running application through an easy to understand graphical interface, allowing rapid discovery and analysis of performance bottlenecks and the pieces of the applications causing them. New Relic RPM installs as a Rails plug-in in seconds allowing critical performance data to be collected immediately.
How to Get RPM
To learn more about RPM and to subscribe, visit http://newrelic.com/get-RPM.html.
RPM Lite is a free, fully supported version for unlimited use in production. Installation and setup take less than 5 minutes. Sign up by visiting http://newrelic.com/RPMlite.html. No credit card or payment needed.
About Shopify
Shopify is a hosted e-commerce service that allows businesses to set up an online store to sell their goods. It lets business owners get started quickly, design a beautiful store, organize and display products, accept credit card payments, and track and respond to orders -- all without the hassle of hiring IT staff. Shopify is based in Ottawa, Canada.
To learn more about Shopify, visit www.shopify.com.
About New Relic
New Relic, Inc. offers RPM™, a Rails Performance Management solution that enables developers to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose, and fix application performance problems in real time. More than 950 top Rails organizations use New Relic RPM to monitor and optimize their production applications, including customers 37signals, Ourstage, iOffer, Getty Images, New York Jets, and AboutUs.org; and partners Engine Yard and Pivotal Labs. Funded by Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures, New Relic is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. To learn more about New Relic, visit www.newrelic.com.
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