Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku

In the world of Ruby development, there are two primary cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings: Engine Yard and Heroku. Both provide an easy-to-scale, managed hosting environment, both are built on Amazon EC2, and both have a long and intimate history with the Ruby community. Nevertheless, they offer contrasting approaches and features that will appeal to different audiences.

By Andrew Glover | 30 November, 2011 22:10

Tags: application development, cloud computing, engine yard, heroku, internet, paas, ruby on rails, software