Engine Yard’s Rails app support gets another $19M
Engine Yard, a company that helps developers deploy and manage web applications built with the Ruby on Rails programming framework (which is popular for fast web development), has raised $19 million in a third venture round.
This brings the San Francisco company’s total funding to $37.5 million. As a point of comparison, to about 10 times the money raised by competitor Heroku. Both companies offer services to take the pain out of launching a Rails app… Continue Reading
With Flex, Engine Yard targets Rails applications in Amazon’s cloud
Engine Yard, a startup that manages web applications built using the Ruby on Rails programming framework, is planning to expand its services for applications running on Amazon’s infrastructure, adding to its existing Solo product (for smaller developers) with Engine Yard Flex, for larger, industrial-scale deployments.
The goal of companies like Engine Yard is to remove much of the difficulty from deploying and scaling web applications (so they work across lots of users) — once someone has… Continue Reading
Engine Yard gets $15M for Rails hosting, and a new platform
Engine Yard, a hosting and support company for the popular Ruby on Rails programming framework, has raised $15 million in a second round of financing. Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Tom Mornini says the San Francisco startup will soon expand its offerings with the release of Vertebra, its platform for managing Rails applications in the Internet cloud.
The new funding is kind of surprising, since Engine Yard just announced its $3.5 million first round back in… Continue Reading
Engine Yard, a Rails application support company, gets backing from Benchmark
Engine Yard, a provider of support for the hot programming language and application framework, Ruby on Rails, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of capital from Benchmark Capital.
Ruby on Rails (or Rails, for short) has grown tremendously popular over the past two years, thanks to its light and agile nature. Leading companies of the latest Internet boom, including Twitter, have developed their applications using the framework. It is open source and therefore flexible… Continue Reading