Twitter has acquired a little-known scalable computing startup called Ubalo, the two companies announced Thursday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"When we met the infrastructure folks at Twitter, we realized that it’s a company with brilliant people, strong momentum, exciting challenges and a promising future," Ubalo's co-founders wrote in a post on their website. "We quickly became enthusiastic about the possibility of collaborating with them and the impact we could have there." The deal was apparently finalized a few days ago.
Twitter confirmed the acquisition in a tweet from its engineering account:
Welcome to the flock. “@ubalo: We've got some exciting news: The Ubalo team is joining Twitter. Read more: ubalo.com.”— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) May 9, 2013
Ubalo, which was founded in 2011, describes itself as a simpler way to deal with large-scale computing: "We hide the details of the computers, environments, and messaging, so our users can worry much less about integration and scaling and instead write just the code they need for their analysis or processing."
Twitter has made several notable acquisitions in recent months, including buying We Are Hunted to create the Twitter Music app as well as the social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs.