Engine Yard and New Relic Extend Partnership to Provide Rails Cloud Application Management

New Relic announced that Engine Yard has built New Relic RPM into its Engine Yard AppCloud product, allowing automatic deployment of RPM. Now, through a single console, Engine Yard customers can deploy, manage, and optimize their business-critical Ruby on Rails web applications. Engine Yard AppCloud offers a pre-integrated, pre-tested Ruby on Rails technology stack, including web, application and database servers, built-in monitoring and process management, a Rails-optimized Linux distribution, in-memory caches and more. Engine Yard AppCloud tracks essential storage, CPU, and memory utilization data while providing easy-to-use capacity management features. New Relic RPM is the leading on-demand application performance management solution for both Ruby on Rails and Java web applications. It allows teams to monitor applications in production, proactively identify performance issues, and drill down for root-cause diagnosis. Integration with Engine Yard AppCloud provides Engine Yard customers with automatic access to RPM, which is available to them at a discounted rate. Working together, these solutions allow Ruby on Rails development and deployment teams to create the most robust, superior-performing enterprise-class Rails applications.

"Our end users expect a fast and flawless online experience and it's important that we take advantage of the best tools available to ensure we continue meeting their needs," said Sam Parnell, vice-president of engineering at Bleacher Report, a top online sports news and entertainment publisher that is one of the top 5 fastest growing sites on the web over the last six months according to Quantcast. "Engine Yard AppCloud provides us with a reliable, proven platform to deploy and manage our applications and RPM gives us the visibility we need to monitor and troubleshoot performance issues before they affect our end users. Building RPM into the Engine Yard AppCloud will make it easier to ensure our applications are meeting performance goals and service-level commitments."