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	New Relic Scales Their Software Platform Quickly with Docker and Creates New Tools Designed For Dockerized Applications

New Relic Scales Their Software Platform Quickly with Docker and Creates New Tools Designed For Dockerized Applications

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	As New Relic anticipated their future growth, they saw it as an opportunity to rethink their own application architecture. This led New Relic to morph their existing monolithic application components into a service-oriented architecture with a goal of increasing their number of software deployments each day. At the same time, they were planning to greatly increase their infrastructure and launch new products and features into the marketplace. As a SaaS company, these transitions were not taken lightly, as any changes to the existing infrastructure and services instantly touches their customers. To aid in this transition, the Site Engineering group, including – Sean Kane Lead Site Reliability Engineer Karl Matthias and Sean Kane, along with several product teams, started to investigate Docker, the open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications. Read More
About Customer	New Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of billions of metrics about millions of applications in real time. Their comprehensive SaaS-based solution provides one powerful interface for web and native mobile applications and consolidates the performance monitoring data for any chosen technology in an environment. Their customers use their cloud solution every day to optimize more than 200 billion metrics for 3 million applications. When your brand and customer experience depend on the performance of modern software, New Relic provides insight into your overall environment. Read More
Solution	New Relic adopted Docker, the open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications. As early adopters of the Docker platform, the team even custom-built an open source project called Centurion as a deployment tool that contributed to the Docker community. That tooling was integrated into their original proof of concept deployment pipeline, which was built on Docker and formed the platform for their new application release process. Today there are over 75 New Relic production services that run on Docker both in New Relic’s own data center and in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Containers are always spinning up and down depending on what new features are being deployed and each application team is able to deploy containers on demand. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

As New Relic anticipated their future growth, they saw it as an opportunity to rethink their own application architecture. This led New Relic to morph their existing monolithic application components into a service-oriented architecture with a goal of increasing their number of software deployments each day. At the same time, they were planning to greatly increase their infrastructure and launch new products and features into the marketplace. As a SaaS company, these transitions were not taken lightly, as any changes to the existing infrastructure and services instantly touches their customers. To aid in this transition, the Site Engineering group, including – Sean Kane Lead Site Reliability Engineer Karl Matthias and Sean Kane, along with several product teams, started to investigate Docker, the open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications.

About Customer

New Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of billions of metrics about millions of applications in real time. Their comprehensive SaaS-based solution provides one powerful interface for web and native mobile applications and consolidates the performance monitoring data for any chosen technology in an environment. Their customers use their cloud solution every day to optimize more than 200 billion metrics for 3 million applications. When your brand and customer experience depend on the performance of modern software, New Relic provides insight into your overall environment.

Solution

New Relic adopted Docker, the open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications. As early adopters of the Docker platform, the team even custom-built an open source project called Centurion as a deployment tool that contributed to the Docker community. That tooling was integrated into their original proof of concept deployment pipeline, which was built on Docker and formed the platform for their new application release process. Today there are over 75 New Relic production services that run on Docker both in New Relic’s own data center and in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Containers are always spinning up and down depending on what new features are being deployed and each application team is able to deploy containers on demand.

Impact #1	Empowered developers to iterate faster and with assurances that what runs in production is the exact code they shipped
Impact #2	Eliminated frustration and improved productivity by streamlining the setup time, in some cases from one day down to one hour.
Impact #3	Operations team is less involved in application deployments and debugging, allowing for more focus on site reliability and process improvements.

Impact #1

Empowered developers to iterate faster and with assurances that what runs in production is the exact code they shipped

Impact #2

Eliminated frustration and improved productivity by streamlining the setup time, in some cases from one day down to one hour.

Impact #3

Operations team is less involved in application deployments and debugging, allowing for more focus on site reliability and process improvements.

Benefit #1	Increased the number of software deployments each day
Benefit #2	Reduced setup time from one day to one hour
Benefit #3	Enabled hundreds of engineers to deploy at any time

Benefit #1

Increased the number of software deployments each day

Benefit #2

Reduced setup time from one day to one hour

Benefit #3

Enabled hundreds of engineers to deploy at any time

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New Relic Scales Their Software Platform Quickly with Docker and Creates New Tools Designed For Dockerized Applications

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