Engine Yard secures $15M funding
EngineYard, the Ruby applications hosting company, (on top of the $3.5M earlier this year).
Engine Yard is also sponsoring the development of Merb, a ruby web development framework, and rubinius, a ruby implementation.
Of course, Engine Yard also hosts Ruby on Rails applications
Three new open source projects published by Google
Google recently released several open source projects:
- RatProxy: a passive web application security assessment tool
- Protocol Buffers: a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format and the format used for almost all of Google's internal RPC protocols and file formats.
- GoogleTest: a framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian).
Interesting for developers to check out!
RedHat Q1 revenue grows 31%
RedHat published a press release detailing their Q1 financial results. Revenue increased 32%, and operating cash flow Increased by 60% Year-over-Year.
Impressive numbers, further analysed by Matt Asay.
Orbitz publishes 2 open source monitoring projects
InfoQ is reporting the release of 2 open source projects by Orbitz, a big online travel company.
The first project is for the java platform: ERMA (Extremely Reusable Monitoring API), is "an instrumentation API that has been designed to be applicable for all monitoring needs" with the goal to "make instrumentation as simple as logging".
The second, built with Python, is Graphite, "a highly scalable real-time graphing system". this project seems similar to MRTG and RRDTool.
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