Case Studies
Fanzter scores spot on performance with New Relic
Overview
Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems | |
Retail Software | |
Product Research & Development Sales & Marketing | |
Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Track & Trace of Assets | |
Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration | |
Operational Impact
Using a power tool like New Relic RPM has enabled Fanzter to manage performance real-time, to quickly identify performance issues and just as easily to find and fix root causes. | |
Transaction tracing is particularly useful as it provides a breakdown of the request’s timeline — especially for slow SQL queries or external requests. It eliminates guesswork which improves productivity and enables quick action and remedy for performance optimization. | |
When Fanzter implemented their Holiday Gift Guide for the 2011 season, it included some new views. They quickly discovered that some of these views, which had not been slow in the test environment, were slow once put into production. The problem only occurred in certain categories of the holiday guide when using the full data set. Using Transaction Traces to analyze these requests, the Fanzter team was able to see that a specific SQL query, which had worked well for most categories, was not performing well in a small number of cases. Fanzter adjusted the index usage in the query, implemented a bit more caching, and was able to bring request times back in line with the rest of the site. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Fanzter served over 20 million users in 2011, serving more than 32 million page views each month. | |
Their applications (aggregating web and mobile) deliver more than 32 million page views to over 2 million unique users each month. | |