Engine Yard
Encyclopedia
Engine Yard is a San Francisco, California
based company focused on Ruby on Rails
deployment and management
project, and the company continued supporting the project by hiring Yehuda Katz to work on the project full time. In December 2008, the Merb and Ruby on Rails projects merged and Katz was added to the Rails Core Team.
Engine Yard also sponsors a number of other open-source projects
, including Rubinius
(an alternate implementation of the Ruby runtime) and JRuby
.
In June 2010, Engine Yard received Cloud Computing
World Series Awards 2010.
In July 2010, Engine Yard was named to SD Times 100 List
.
. Some industry monitors interpreted this as an investment in Ruby on Rails.
In July of the same year, Engine Yard secured an additional $15 million from a combination of Benchmark Capital
, New Enterprise Associates
, and Amazon
.
In October 2009 Engine Yard announced an additional $19 million in funding from a combination of Benchmark Capital
, New Enterprise Associates
, Amazon
, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures and DAG Ventures
, for a total of $37.5 million in funding.
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
based company focused on Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
deployment and management
Software development
One of Engine Yard's four founders, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, was the creator of the MerbMerb
Merb, short for "Mongrel+Erb", is a model–view–controller web framework written in Ruby. Merb adopts an approach that focuses on essential core functionality, leaving most functionality to plugins. Merb was merged into Rails web framework on December 23, 2008 as part of the Ruby on Rails 3.0...
project, and the company continued supporting the project by hiring Yehuda Katz to work on the project full time. In December 2008, the Merb and Ruby on Rails projects merged and Katz was added to the Rails Core Team.
Engine Yard also sponsors a number of other open-source projects
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
, including Rubinius
Rubinius
Rubinius is an alternative Ruby programming language implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design, Rubinius seeks to"provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."-Goals:...
(an alternate implementation of the Ruby runtime) and JRuby
JRuby
JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, being developed by the JRuby team. It is free software released under a three-way CPL/GPL/LGPL license...
.
Awards & recognitions
In May 2010, Engine Yard was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies” by Lead411.In June 2010, Engine Yard received Cloud Computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
World Series Awards 2010.
In July 2010, Engine Yard was named to SD Times 100 List
SD Times
Software Development Times, better known as SD Times, is a magazine published by BZ Media, in both a print version and an on-line electronic edition. It has been published since 2000. Since 2003, it has published an annual award list, the "SD Times 100", which honors the top 100 leaders and...
.
Funding
In January 2008, Engine Yard received an investment of $3.5 million from Benchmark CapitalBenchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...
. Some industry monitors interpreted this as an investment in Ruby on Rails.
In July of the same year, Engine Yard secured an additional $15 million from a combination of Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...
, New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates is a global investment firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments. With approximately $11 billion in committed capital, NEA is among the largest venture firms. The firm invests in three broad industry sectors: information technology, healthcare, and...
, and Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
.
In October 2009 Engine Yard announced an additional $19 million in funding from a combination of Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...
, New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates is a global investment firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments. With approximately $11 billion in committed capital, NEA is among the largest venture firms. The firm invests in three broad industry sectors: information technology, healthcare, and...
, Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures and DAG Ventures
DAG Ventures
DAG Ventures is an American venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It is known as a "coattail" fund for co-investing in later-stage private financing rounds alongside more prominent top-tier venture funds such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Accel Venture...
, for a total of $37.5 million in funding.
See also
- Amazon EC2
- HerokuHerokuHeroku is a cloud Platform as a Service run by the San Francisco, California-based company with the same name. Heroku led the way for a multi-language PaaS, introducing the 'polyglot platform'. Heroku initially supported the Ruby programming language, with Rack and Ruby on Rails. Heroku PaaS now...
- Google App EngineGoogle App EngineGoogle App Engine is a platform as a service cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. It virtualizes applications across multiple servers,...
- Microsoft Azure Services PlatformAzure Services PlatformThe Windows Azure Platform is a Microsoft cloud platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers. Windows Azure Platform is thus classified as platform as a service and forms part of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy, along with their software as a service...