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“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 an excellent Rails Application Cloud. We rely on Engine Yard to provide an optimized Rails stack, automated deployment and monitoring, and they provide great customer support. The Engine Yard platform remains on top compared to the alternatives.”

Bill Beardsley
Sr. Director, Network Operations
CafePress

“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.

“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

“We chose Engine Yard because they help us keep our infrastructure costs low—with monthly savings of at least 50%—and give us the flexibility to scale up quickly as our business grows. I tell other SMBs and start-ups using Rails they’d be crazy not to give Engine Yard Cloud a serious look. The best thing about relying on Engine Yard for our deployments is that they are dedicated stack experts, so I can trust that they’ve selected battle-tested production configurations for Rails applications. Because of this, we’ve reduced the time we spend each week on system operations.”

Nathan Phelps
Co-founder and CTO
HealthLeap

“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 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

“From our own experience utilizing Engine Yard, we know first-hand the Ruby on Rails expertise and innovation Engine Yard brings to their customers.”

Lewis Cirne
CEO and Founder
New Relic

“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

“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.”

Charles Ju
CEO
PlayMesh

We chose Engine Yard because they offer a world class Rails application cloud for our online 24/7 global business. My advice to anyone starting an internet business is to use Engine Yard from day one. Deploying on Engine Yard has freed up our engineers to focus on development and has provided an enormous productivity boost with significant savings in engineering resources. In the longer term, we’re very excited by the strategic direction of Engine Yard—their focus on providing a broad range of deployment options from the public to private cloud gives RedBubble the flexibility we need as we scale our business. When you choose Engine Yard, you’re buying into the professional approach to Rails and a company that’s heading in the right direction. It’s reassuring to us to know that we have a world class brain trust that we can tap into whenever we need it."

Peter Styles
CEO
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