Just down the street from Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, is Engine Yard, a web hosting company that has morphed into a cloud hosting mecca for Rails apps. As product manager Abheek Anand explains, “It’s all about getting in front of your customers as quickly as possible. We want to have our clients come in and build and deploy in under a day.” Firm believers in the future and scalability of Ruby on Rails, Engine Yard’s developers are Rails specialists, serving customers who know exactly what they need, as well as businesses who have an idea for a killer app, but need an expert opinion on how to run it.

Engine Yard CTO Tom Mornini explains one of the benefits of being in the epicenter of startupland: great eavesdropping. In the ‘90s, the conversation was all tech, but these days, “half the conversation is business.”

More info:
Engine Yard website: http://www.engineyard.com/
Engine Yard profile on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/engineyard

• Abheek Anand
• apps
• developer
• Engine Yard
• hosting
• infrastructure
• programmer
• rails
• San Francisco
• startups
• Tom Mornini
• web