Engine Yard Extends Partnership with New Relic to Provide Proven Rails Application Management to Its

New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, and Engine Yard, the leading cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service for Ruby on Rails, today announced that New Relic RPM is available free to Engine Yard clients. Nevertheless, organizations deploying business-critical Ruby on Rails web applications on Engine Yard AppCloud and xCloud can use RPM Bronze at no charge to monitor app performance 24x7, proactively troubleshoot potential issues, and help meet high standards for online service delivery.

Engine Yard Platform-as-a-Service enables web-based companies and enterprises to scale by running mission-critical applications without the cost of investing in computing infrastructure. The Engine Yard platform-as-a-service offerings provide a curated and optimized Ruby on Rails stack, a set of best-of-breed deployment and management tools, and access to Engine Yard support and professional services. New Relic RPM is the leading on-demand application performance management service for Ruby on Rails. It allows teams to monitor applications in production, proactively identify performance issues, and drill down for root-cause diagnosis. The combination of RPM’s proven application management capabilities and the Engine Yard platform creates an in a class by itself solution for deploying and maintaining superior-performing web applications in the cloud.

“Our clients are shoppers who want instant access to discount and coupon information on their iPhones, so we need to deliver quick service and 100% uptime,” said Matt Greer, CEO of Armadealo. “We rely on Engine Yard because they are experts in deploying Ruby on Rails applications, and we have confidence that we can scale quickly to respond to large traffic spikes, up to 300%, on weekends and holidays. We chose New Relic because we can optimize our application response times while development and at the time monitor performance afterwards we deploy to make sure we’re providing the best user experience. Using the combination of Engine Yard AppCloud and New Relic RPM frees me to focus on growing my business and serving clients.”

"New Relic and Engine Yard share a very strong commitment to the Ruby on Rails community and have been working closely at the same time for some time nevertheless to help organizations successfully deploy and maintain their business-critical web apps," said Lew Cirne, New Relic's founder and CEO. "With RPM Bronze available free of charge, Engine Yard clients can gain tremendous advantage by monitoring production application performance and proactively identifying potential issues."