CIRCONUS the Blog Performance Monitoring - Revolutionized.

It's been a while since I had time to enjoy the technical conference scene. Thanks to my involvement with Circonus, I have plenty of action scheduled between RailsConf, Velocity and the Surge Scalability Conference. We attended RailsConf in Baltimore a couple weeks ago and had a great time. Circonus had an exhibition booth and we gave out tons of demonstrations, free swag and t-shirts. But the best part of any con is catching up with old friends and making new ones.

I finally met Mark Imbriaco of 37signals in person. Mark has been a valued user for us, giving plenty of awesome feedback during the beta and after our production launch. If you haven't seen it already, check out Mark's interview on webpulp.tv. He offers a lot of insight into 37signals' operations and architecture. Good stuff.

Last but not least, a nice relationship blossomed out of our participation at RailsConf. I've been aware of the RPM service over at NewRelic for a while now. Although they sometimes market it as monitoring software for Rails, a more apt description would be to call it a kickass profiling tool for Ruby and Java applications. It's very useful for tracking down performance issues within your application code. But what happens when the problem isn't in your source code... or maybe you're just not sure? Fortunately for NewRelic RPM users, the solution just became very clear.

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We're anxious to meet and greet everyone at RailsConf next month in Baltimore. This will be our first conference appearance since the production launch. Some of our customers, including 37signals, will be visiting Charm City for this big event. I'm excited to see so many talented Web developers and operations folk in one conference. Having it in our hometown is icing on the cake.

As if that wasn't enough, we have a couple of fun things to announce. First, Circonus will be giving away a free RailsConf sessions pass! All you have to do is tweet a message about Circonus at RailsConf to your friends and ask them to retweet it for you. The individual with the most retweets by noon (12pm EDT) on Monday, May 31, 2010 wins. Here's an example tweet:

The @Circonus stuff is hot and it looks like they'll be at #railsconf this year: http://l42.org/bw

If you're keeping score at home, that's a free 2010 RailsConf sessions pass ($795 value) for the price of a few clicks. Free free to get creative with your tweet message. Our only requirements are that it's a positive message that mentions @Circonus and #railsconf, and that includes the http://l42.org/bw link.

Why are you still reading this? Go off and start tweeting for your free RailsConf pass (Conference Sessions Only).

See you in Baltimore!