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Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On

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Are they going to update their routing? Or just make sure their customers know it's doing it the naive random way.

It sounds as though they are keeping the routing but giving users more info about it so they can make better decisions when designing their apps for the platform.

I'm really impressed with the way Heroku has been communicating with their customers and the quick action they have been taking. It goes a long way to restore my faith in their long term plans to make this better.

I'm really impressed with the way Heroku has been communicating with their customers and the quick action they have been taking.

By "communicating with customers" and "quick action" You mean how they hid it for years?

I'm all for quick responses to sudden issues, but this is a bandaid for something they didn't address until getting called out publicly.

You're absolutely right about not addressing it for years part but I think that the way they are responding to it now indicates that they take it seriously and are wanting to make it right.

"Today our partner, New Relic, released an update to the Ruby New Relic agent"

Does this also apply to other non-Ruby frameworks (eg. Django)?

I'm an engineer at New Relic. A fix for the Python agent will follow within the next day or two.

Asking around, it sounds like only the Python & Ruby agents are affected by the queue time reporting issue (with the exception of Java, which apparently doesn't report the queue time at all -- but I believe this is a known limitation).

New Relic has a fixed Python agent out: https://newrelic.com/docs/releases/python

Any word on the status of the gem on the Bamboo stack? We have deployed a couple time today, but our NewRelic gem version is still 3.5.3 and being on Bamboo, have no control over which version is used.

On Bamboo, you can still specify newrelic_rpm at a particular version in your Gemfile. The agent is only injected if Heroku detected that you haven't added the agent yourself: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/newrelic#bamboo-config...

Unrelated: the kerning on the Heroku blog titles is horrible.

Absolutely. I tweeted them a few hours ago. It's bothered me forever!

It's actually the tracking (letter-spacing: 1px), a slight difference. http://www.mmprint.com/blog/2011/typography-kerning-leading-...

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You should know:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226117 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230585

1700+ karma in 16 days and you complain? Come on now.

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