SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Exceptional today announced that it has acquired Airbrake, the world's largest error tracking application, from thoughtbot, a Boston based web design and development company.  Airbrake will continue to empower companies like Groupon, Square and AT&T.

"Exceptional and Airbrake share a common vision of bringing the best web experience to the world," said Chad Pytel, CEO of thoughtbot.  "I am excited to see many of the innovations we've developed with Airbrake now available to our combined 75,000 customers around the world."

"Since I first tried the product, I've admired the Airbrake team for creating such a simple and elegant solution for handling errors," said Jonathan Siegel, Chief Strategy Officer of Exceptional. "Great web companies are deploying new site features iteratively -- sometimes weekly (AT&T), daily (Groupon), and occasionally hourly (Square & eBay). This new expectation for responsiveness and speed requires new techniques to support quality and control. Both Exceptional and Airbrake are growing from a core service for website stability into a platform for enabling highly-responsive development teams to move at speed with grace and ease."

The two companies have tracked over 5 billion errors since their inception in 2008. With a combined 75,000 customer base and counting, these two error handling companies will conquer over 30,000 reports per minute ranging from startups like Square, and Pinterest to giants like eBay, Groupon and AT&T.

Airbrake is based in San Francisco, CA and will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Exceptional.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.

About Exceptional

Founded in 2008, Exceptional's (http://exceptional.io/) mission is to track the world's web exceptions. It reports them in real-time for developers to fix them fast. Its customers include eBay and Pinterest. Exceptional is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Airbrake

Created by thoughtbot (http://thoughtbot.com/) in 2008, Airbrake (http://airbrake.io) tracks errors. Its customers include Groupon, Square and AT&T. thoughtbot continues to provide web design and development consulting and is developing Trajectory (http://apptrajectory.com), Copycopter (http://copycopter.com), and apprentice.io (http://apprentice.io) to help solve problems for web design and development teams.

 

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