New Relic Founder and CEO Lew Cirne has done and seen a lot in his IT lifetime, and every bit of it influences how he approaches New Relic, both as a technology and a company. We profiled the popular cloud-based web-application performance management (APM) startup in October, and it has only grown since then — up to about 7,000 customers from about 5,600 — and ultimately doubling tripling its revenue in 2010. Cirne says the company, which launched in 2008, should be cashflow positive by the end of this year. Today, New Relic added support for Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk PaaS offering, which is now the ninth public cloud (including Amazon EC2) with which New Relic has partnered. Here’s how Cirne has been able to do so much with New Relic in so little time.

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