Congratulations to FiveRuns partner Engine Yard on their recent funding from Benchmark Capital. This is great news for Engine Yard, as well for the Ruby and Rails communities. We’ve been investing in and betting on a future filled with Rails production applications and this news completely validates our common view of the market and the opportunity that it represents to the community.
We’re firm believers that continued investments in the ecosystem around Ruby and Rails are needed, whether they are used to propel the continued progress of Rubinius and Merb, or used to build out the tools needed to deploy and monitor Rails applications in production environments.
While Rails continues its awesome momentum, we still see many businesses waiting on the sidelines to benefit from this great framework. What are they waiting for? A better development environment? Not really. They tell us that they are waiting for an ecosystem of tools, services, support, and best practices that will ensure that if they build a business-critical Rails application it will integrate into their existing environments, scale, be available, and perform. For many companies, their desire to use Rails is mitigated by the early adopter risks associated with thoughts of having an important Rails application operating without the safety net of a supportive ecosystem. The opportunity to address this concern is why we’re excited to work in this space.
Congrats again to Lance and the team at Engine Yard. Here’s to more investment in our community!
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