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“Scalability and reliably are critical requirements for our clients – NCAA, NFL, NHL, Nascar, and Golf.com. Running on Engine Yard Cloud makes it simple to deploy new servers on the fly during weekly peak traffic times and special events likes March Madness when we have to handle significant traffic spikes.”
Chris Nicholas
President
Sports Technologies
“We recommend Engine Yard Cloud to all of our clients, including Toyota Kenya, because we get huge time and cost savings. We would need another 5 people to manage infrastructure internally. Instead, we rely on Engine Yard, and we focus our developers on writing code which keeps them and our customers happy.”
Shaun Richards
Managing Partner
Platform45 Information Solutions
“We switched to Engine Yard because we get reliability, performance, and 24×7 support. The response times on our service increased as soon as we moved to Engine Yard. Plus, we save time and the cost of hiring an internal ops engineer while taking advantage of the Engine Yard team’s experience and knowledge. We don’t have to worry about the details – we leave that to Engine Yard.”
David Sommers
VP of Engineering
SalesCrunch
“When our client, Loffles, was covered in the New York Times, they had traffic spikes of over 50x normal traffic, and the site performed flawlessly with 100% uptime. We rely on Engine Yard to handle security and deployment best practices, so we can focus on what we do best – design and develop web and mobile apps.”
Nick Kishfy
Founder
MojoTech
“By deploying on Engine Yard, we save on the cost of hiring a full-time sys admin, and we have access to a team of Ruby on Rails experts. That’s huge for us because our developers can focus on building new features and functionality for our application.”
Greg Blasko
Partner and COO
TST Media
“We rely on Engine Yard to deliver a flexible, reliable platform with a rock-solid stack, so we don’t have to invest in building internal resources and hiring an ops team. Even with our customized configurations, Engine Yard makes it easy to deploy – we just click a button. We go from development to staging to production with all of our focus on building a great product.”
CJ Johnson
founder
3Play Media
“We chose Engine Yard PaaS because it gives us the scalability, reliability and flexibility we need for our growing mobile QR code service. We started with an Engine Yard University Rails class, and we built and deployed our application in less than 90 days – a 50% time savings. Engine Yard provides everything we need from a free trial to training and support and features like multi-region to ensure we achieve maximum up-time. The Engine Yard platform is rock solid – it just works.”
Chad Whitney
CEO
RedirectWare.com
“Once we decided on Rails, Engine Yard was the natural choice because it offers reliability, a mature stack, enterprise-level support, and training. The combination of Ruby on Rails and Engine Yard simplifies development and allows us to focus on our core business value.”
Chris Reid
Information Technology Manager
Suite101.com Media
“Engine Yard delivers a scalable and reliable cloud platform for Ruby on Rails applications such as the Caterpillar online rental website we built. We’re able to meet traffic demands on the website – including a 200% increase in monthly pageviews last quarter. Plus, we can deploy additional servers within minutes, as needed, using a single command. Without the need to build and maintain hardware and deployment tools, Envy Labs can focus on what we do best – building killer web applications for our customers.”
Mark Kendall
Lead Developer
Envy Labs
“Engine Yard is the stand-out choice for deploying Rails applications in the cloud. We get scalability and flexibility – plus we can leverage the expertise of the Engine Yard support team. By deploying our app on Engine Yard, we can tailor our environment to meet our exact requirements and keep our costs down.”
Gabe da Silveira
Technical Lead
MUBI
“Running operations in-house is expensive and time-consuming. Engine Yard makes it simple and affordable for us to deploy our apps. We’ve saved at least 25% on our deployment costs. I was blown away when we had our new app up and running in a few minutes – the process is so easy. Plus, we can rely on Engine Yard to keep our sites up 24×7, so we don’t have to worry about getting an emergency page at 2am and our engineers can focus on building great apps.”
Tom Lianza
CTO
Wishpot
“We had 17 days to create and deliver the NBA All-Star Pulse web application, and Engine Yard provided scalability, high performance, and fast, reliable service to help us achieve our goal. We provided lightning-quick response times to all users, and based on our monitoring we could have easily handled more than 4x the traffic and spikes of 10x what we saw without experiencing any slowdowns, much less any downtime. Overall, we beat our deployment time estimates by 50% and hit our scalability targets to serve over 100,000 users in the 60 hours of All-Star Weekend.”
James Wright
Director of Technology
MaxMedia
“We chose Engine Yard because of the incredible performance and affordability, and it’s so easy to use. Our app runs much faster on the Engine Yard optimized stack – it’s like we traded our Escort for a Ferrari. We get increased performance but at a lower cost. Plus, we save at least 20 hours a month on engineering resources because we can deploy new apps so easily. Our business is more stable, our users are happier, and we can focus on building products.”
Steven J. Wagner
Head Ignitor
Dealer Ignition
“We tell all of our clients to run their apps on Engine Yard AppCloud because we know it’s a rock solid platform that delivers the scalability, reliability, and support that are critical to meeting the demands of high-traffic websites. We rely on Engine Yard for their expertise and experience in scaling 1000s of Rails apps. That gives us peace of mind, so we can focus on building websites and helping our clients grow their businesses.”
Sherrod Faulks
CTO
Soft Illuminations
“We use Engine Yard AppCloud because the flexibility and efficiency is fantastic. In the past, we’ve spent up to two hours configuring a server, and there’s always a hiccup to diagnose. With AppCloud, we were able to get every server up in 7 minutes – that’s at least a 10x increase in efficiency. Plus, the optimized stack makes our web pages load really fast. Being able to rely on Engine Yard is priceless.”
Fred Zirdung
Web Developer
Sifteo, Inc.
Engine Yard gives us the scalability, reliability, and performance we need to handle traffic spikes of 30x our normal traffic on our mobile ticketing website. Uptime and fast page loads are critical to ensure 10s of thousands of customers can buy tickets in a few hours. Our apps run perfectly on AppCloud because we leverage the latest software components in the optimized stack. There’s no other product out there like Engine Yard.
Scott Thorpe
CEO & founder
MogoTix
“Engine Yard AppCloud is a scalable, reliable platform that’s been developed and fine-tuned by cloud experts. We have an easy and repeatable deployment process that is 200% better than managing our own datacenter. Running our apps in the cloud has given us more control because we have monitoring tools and support experts at Engine Yard to ensure maximum uptime while servicing over 320 million fans and handling millions of requests per week. With the significant time and cost savings of deploying on Engine Yard AppCloud, we’re able to focus on developing new products for our growing list of Fortune 1000 customers.”
John Schult
Director of Product Engineering
Vitrue
“We wanted a solution for deploying our web applications that would improve reliability and stability. We also wanted a solid platform and framework to build on. Once we chose Ruby on Rails, the right platform provider was obvious – Engine Yard.”
Bill Abel
Vice President and Director of Digital Development
Luckie & Co.
“Engine Yard provides the scalability we need to provide customer support communities for tens of thousands of companies and easily scale to millions of monthly unique users. We rely on Engine Yard Cloud and the company’s expertise in Ruby on Rails to keep our sites available 24×7.”
-Thor Muller
CTO and Co-Founder
Get Satisfaction
“Engine Yard service is amazing…The support team has deep knowledge of Rails and how to scale high-growth applications, and they’re always available. Whenever you need help, it’s not just one person that comes in—it’s the whole team. This kind of support is unique and has made us a very loyal customer.”
Eric Peng
CEO
PlayMesh
“Engine Yard’s strong level of service allows us to quickly and efficiently set up and make changes to our infrastructure—which helps us get product updates out the door faster,”
Russell Taga
Director of Engineering
Howcast
“We chose Engine Yard because they are experts in Ruby on Rails, have the ability to scale up quickly, and provide excellent customer support. Engine Yard is an integral part of our mobile marketing operation. We experience large spikes in traffic, up to 300%, on weekends and holidays when people are doing more shopping. We’ve had no downtime and I have 100% confidence that the systems we’ve built and deployed at Engine Yard are being monitored and well taken care of. This peace of mind lets me focus on running my business.”
Matt Greer
CEO
Armadealo
“Engine Yard is specialized in Ruby on Rails, provides excellent customer support, and offers a solution that has a great cost/benefit ratio. They offer flexibility and scalability to help us meet the demands of our 1.1 million registered users and support our customer growth. With Engine Yard Cloud, we can easily handle our weekly traffic spikes as well as periodic increases of over 100%. We can easily spin up additional instances when we need them, and with this increased flexibility we have reduced our deployment costs by two-thirds. And, we have a relatively complex set of requirements to run our application. We’re using everything that Engine Yard Cloud gives us—from the rich set of deployment tools to JRuby. We rely on Engine Yard for their excellent support and expertise in scalability, so we can focus on developing our application and serving our customers.”
Tim Murphy
VP Products
Catalog Choice
“We switched to Engine Yard to get the scalability, reliability, and productivity benefits we needed for our business-critical application that serves over 100,000 registered users. We used to spend up to 10 hours per week on managing infrastructure, but now it takes us less than 5 minutes to deploy our application at Engine Yard—allowing us to invest in developing new features that serve Chictopia community members and grow our business.”
Corinne Chan
CTO
Chictopia
“The flexibility, performance and peace of mind we get from Engine Yard Cloud allows us to focus on what we do best—develop great web applications for our customers.”
CJ Kihlbom
Founder and Developer
eLabs
“We chose Engine Yard because we were looking for a platform that could deliver scalability for a Rails-based social game…The support team has been fantastic, and we’ve relied on their impressive expertise with the Rails stack to help us achieve our scalability requirements. We are really happy to have the combination of Engine Yard technical expertise, customer support, and cloud platform all running on top of Amazon Web Services infrastructure.”
Rob Shedd, VP
Technology and Product
Three Screen Games, Inc.
“We chose Engine Yard because they provide the scalability, support, and savings to help us grow our business. For example, we built our application in 9 weeks, and we’re now launching the next project ahead of schedule. By using Ruby on Rails and deploying on Engine Yard Cloud, we’ve saved at least 60% on engineering resources—this productivity boost translates directly to more features and faster time to market. Plus we now have Rails experts supporting us 24/7 to ensure everything is working right. I can’t imagine ever leaving the combination of agile and cloud development.”
Chris McNeilly
CTO
Motista
“Engine Yard provides great scalability and deployment automation for our Rails-based online store. We’ve had a bunch of publicity, and each time the site scaled nicely without a lot of engineering time and money. Managing deployment infrastructure took 10% of our engineering lead’s time at his last job, and just 2% at oneforty. That’s a big cost savings. We need our engineers focused on building the features our community needs.”
Laura Fitton
CEO
Oneforty
“Engine Yard provides amazing customer support, Rails expertise, and the killer combination of scalability, reliability, simplicity, and affordability. We’ve never experienced such attentive, fast and thorough customer service. We had a very tight development schedule and relying on Engine Yard support helped us to meet it. The combination of Rails and Engine Yard Cloud reduced our development time by 1.5×. And, when our site is under load, we can bring up new instances with one click. The simplicity of deploying on Engine Yard Cloud saves us at least 2 hours a day versus running our own servers. The time savings and efficiency gains in development and deployment are huge—helping us to build our application faster and deliver more features to OpenIndie customers.”
Kieran Masterton
Co-founder
OpenIndie
“We’ve doubled our productivity by running on Engine Yard. We get the flexibility and scalability of PaaS which allows us to deploy as often as we need and handle traffic spikes of 300%. Plus, we’re 50% more efficient than we would be with a traditional IT dept. With Engine Yard, we can make critical development decisions and immediately test them because we know that deployment will be quick and easy.”
Paul Coia
CTO
RedBubble
“As we built teambox.com, our open-source project management and collaboration tool, scalability and fast performance were very important, so we chose Engine Yard…We have also relied on Engine Yard for their specialized, technical knowledge to save us a lot of time in implementing our system. They already knew how to solve the problems we were facing for the first time.”
Pablo Villalba
Founder and CEO
Teambox
“We switched to Engine Yard because they are the Ruby on Rails experts. We have a high comfort level knowing we can rely on them for support and that our website is running on the leading application cloud. It takes us 50% less time to deploy on Engine Yard Cloud because it’s so easy to configure servers. We can deploy with just a few clicks and add another instance with just one more click—and on top of it all, everything is pre-configured by Rails experts at Engine Yard who could write the book on best practices for rapid deployment. These productivity gains allow us to accelerate development and deliver more features to TransFS customers.”
Josh Krall
CTO
TransFS
“Engine Yard provides the flexibility, affordability, and Rails expertise we need to run our active mobile gaming community. We wanted the flexibility of running our application in the cloud but didn’t want to deal with configuring and managing server images. With Engine Yard Cloud, we can deploy our application in 5 minutes, and we know we’re running on the best Rails-focused technology stack. If we were managing our own servers, we’d have to take resources away from development to invest in a dedicated IT/infrastructure engineer. Instead, we’re able to focus on building new features for Z2Live gamers.”
Damon Danieli
Founder and CTO
Z2Live