We’re excited to offer an early look at Meteor Galaxy, our commercial service for running and managing Meteor applications in the cloud. Click here to sign up.

Our goal has always been to build the best possible JavaScript application platform. Recently we’ve talked about two big parts of that effort: our plans for Meteor 1.2, coming next month, and the launch of the Meteor Developer Subscription, which we announced in June.

Today we’re excited to add Meteor Galaxy to that picture. You can think of the open source Meteor SDK, Meteor Galaxy, and the Meteor Developer Subscription as the three legs of a complete JavaScript Application Platform that addresses each part of an app’s lifecycle — from design and development to deployment and management — with comprehensive support covering you each step of the way.

Our objective with Galaxy is simple: we want to make it the best way to operate and scale Meteor apps, and give you a great development experience that doesn’t force your team to learn, build, and maintain a sophisticated DevOps practice around your app. And so Galaxy goes far beyond scaling Meteor to multiple processes in the cloud. A lot of what’s inside Galaxy addresses the particular challenges of managing Connected Client apps in the cloud, like tracking the list of browsers and mobile devices connected to the app, and smoothly coordinating version updates between client code and cloud service code without disrupting your users. I’ll talk more about Galaxy’s features in the coming months.

So today, we’re making a first version of Galaxy commercially available as an early access service. Initially, we will focus on teams with critical applications in production, adding users as we fine tune. You can expect steady progress and updates from us on the early access list as well as here on our blog.

To join the program please sign up and tell us about your app.