November 15, 2013: This Week at Engine Yard

If you’re interested in beta testing some of the cool new ruby clusters we’re planning on putting out into the world for experimentation and feedback, join our beta testing group and tell us which technologies you are interested in! Perk: win prizes.

–Tasha Drew, Product Manager

Engineering Updates

In addition to working on several access control projects that are close to being early access (hopefully next week!), this week we announced a new level of support available for customers: Managed.

Managed support provides what can only be described as an incredibly robust and flexible level of support in which Engine Yard is actively involved in managing your running application on your behalf. Managed Support also has the flexibility to handle unique customer requirements – for example, if you want full support for a language or data stack we do not currently have as part of our main platform.

You can read all about the new support offering here, or chat with your account representative if you have questions! Social Calendar (Come say hi!)

Monday, November 18th - Wednesday, November 20th: We’re so excited to sponsor the very first ZendCon Europe in Paris! Kevin Holler, Slava Cickinas, Davey Shafik and Noelle Daley will all be in attendance and ready to talk shop. Stop by our booth, say hello, and make sure to catch Davey’s closing keynote on the Evolution of DevOps.

Tuesday, November 19th: Our Dublin HQ is happy to host Ruby Ireland again. The agenda this week: Turning your monolithic monster into mini-mutants by Gavin Joyce.

Articles of Interest

Iranian engineers are testing a prototype of a drone designed to rescue people who are drowning by throwing them life preservers. Batkid has taken over crime fighting in Gotham City (formerly San Francisco), rescuing a lady from being tied to the muni tracks (which would be frightening if they came more often), and facing off with noted bad-dudes the Penguin and the Riddler!