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Re: Threeflight post# 49095

Sunday, 10/23/2011 5:11:51 PM

Sunday, October 23, 2011 5:11:51 PM

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The Groupon IPO mention brings about more thoughts. They are built on the Ruby on Rails Platform as are Amazon, BBC, Cisco, CNET, IBM and JP Morgan. Other fastgrowing sites like Hulu, Twitter, and Soundcloud also built on the same platform.

Digital Clarity's growing capability now offers development on the Ruby on Rails platform

This is not to be taken lightly. It is another of many examples demonstrating Digital Clarity is on top of the latest technologies.

Apparently Ruby on Rails developers are pretty highly sought after these days:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/28/chicagos-great-web-developer-drought/

But even Groupon is having a hard time finding enough developers, as its recent acquisition of Obtiva evinces. Obtiva was a Ruby on Rails shop that Groupon had used as a flexible staffing solution; when it bought the company it had already been using many of its employees, but Groupon needed more. I’ve been told on several occasions that Groupon has an effective corner on the Rails market in Chicago.

How high is the demand for Ruby on Rails developers in the Bay Area / Silicon Valley right now?

http://www.quora.com/How-high-is-the-demand-for-Ruby-on-Rails-developers-in-the-Bay-Area-right-now

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2011/08/startupwatch_en.php

Ruby on Rails has become the language of choice for many developers because it has shown to be scalable and has been successfully used in some large corporate development projects and large consumer web services. And so the demand for Ruby on Rails specialists is soaring. Mr Dillon points out that in San Francisco, there are some 700 unfilled Ruby on Rails jobs.


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