Case Study: SpanishDict
Laser focus on performance problems. SpanishDict uses New Relic's integrated tool set to get a complete picture of application performance including 3rd party software. SpanishDict is the world’s largest Spanish-English Dictionary, translation, and language learning website offering a 300,000 word dictionary, 25,000 multimedia flashcard sets, 90 videos, 100,000 Q&A database, and a language translator. With 5 Million visitors per month over 45 Million visitors in 2011, high performance is a must – to keep language learner actively involved and focused.
"New Relic offers an integrated tool set that does an incredible job of monitoring and organizing performance data….Impressive!"
Chris Cummings
CEO – SpanishDict
CEO – SpanishDict
Challenges
- Manage the infrastructure for 5 million site users/month
- Provide high performance for on-demand video and multimedia flashcard sets
- See problems across entire web app - front-end, application, data base
Solution
- Deliver 24x7 monitoring for all aspects of site via single integrated tool
- Pinpoint and prioritize performance problems laser focus (line of code)
- See real performance from real data rather than the estimates seen by other products
Results
- Prioritize code optimization for end-user experience and staff productivity
- Identify 3rd party software services bottlenecks (and produce temporary solutions) for improved end-to-end user experience
- Single APM tool organizes and present performance data in priority and actionable sequence
Environment
PHP on CodeIgniter,large MySQL database server, application servers, Memcache, Elastic Search, Amazon S3, New Relic
