End-to-end testing is a critical process in software development that ensures the reliability and functionality of an application. However, setting up and managing end-to-end testing workflows can be challenging, often requiring complex infrastructure and time-consuming maintenance. This is where ephemeral environments come in. By providing an isolated, on-demand testing environment that can be quickly spun up and torn down, ephemeral environments can streamline the end-to-end testing process and help reduce resource waste. In this article, we will explore the concept of ephemeral environments and their benefits for end-to-end testing. We will also discuss how Qovery's ephemeral environments platform simplifies the process of managing ephemeral environments for end-to-end testing workflows.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The State of Preview Environments Report is a survey conducted by Qovery gathering feedback from 1,289 seasoned software engineers with diverse experiences, ranging from growing to enterprise-level organizations. This report aims to get a pulse on the perception and adoption of Preview Environments among the software engineering community. We are thrilled to share the survey results with you, which provide valuable insights into how Preview Environments are being used, their benefits, and the challenges teams face in adopting them.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

In today's fast-paced and competitive software development landscape, the ability to quickly and efficiently manage development environments is critical to success. This is where Environment as a Service (EaaS) comes in. EaaS is a cloud-based solution that lets developers quickly establish and manage development environments. EaaS simplifies infrastructure management, helping developers work faster and create better apps. It also lets companies quickly scale their development efforts to meet changing market and customer needs.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

As more businesses adopt Kubernetes to manage containerized applications, optimizing Kubernetes on AWS has become a crucial aspect of managing and deploying applications in the cloud. Kubernetes on AWS provides many benefits, including scalability, high availability, and flexibility, but it also poses several challenges that require careful consideration and planning. Today, we will discuss the top 10 best practices for optimizing Kubernetes on AWS, along with the common challenges that come with it. We will also provide solutions to overcome these challenges and introduce Qovery as a solution to simplify Kubernetes management on AWS. After reading this article, you will be in a position to make the most out of your Kubernetes application on AWS.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Software developers need controlled and isolated environments to try new features, bug fixes, and other changes before deploying them to production. This separation captures possible issues early, reducing the risk of live environment errors or performance issues. Teams can experiment with various configurations, tools, and technologies in test environments, fostering innovation and development. Test environments enhance software quality, user satisfaction, and development efficiency by promoting rigorous testing and validation. However, setting up test environments on AWS and managing them result in many challenges. Today we will go through these challenges and discuss how to resolve these challenges.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

As businesses grow and evolve, their needs for cloud services change too. This is especially true for companies that start with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution like Heroku but need more control over their environment and customization options as they scale. This is where Amazon Web Services (AWS) comes in. Migrating from Heroku to AWS can be a complex process, but it allows businesses to scale their infrastructure and customize their environment to meet their specific needs. In this article, we will explore how Qovery and Cloud303 can help companies to navigate the challenges of Heroku to AWS migration and achieve a seamless transition to a more powerful cloud solution.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The ability to scale your applications is crucial for businesses, enabling them to manage growing user traffic, maintain application performance, and expand the business efficiently. Heroku has become one of the most popular platforms for this purpose due to its user-friendliness, rapid deployment, and support for various programming languages. Despite its powerful infrastructure and beneficial features, scaling on Heroku presents certain challenges in terms of high cost and poor performance. Today, we will explore scaling challenges on Heroku and introduce an alternative solution, Qovery, that can help businesses manage the cost and complexity of scaling applications. We will also provide case studies of companies successfully using Qovery to overcome these challenges and scale their applications more efficiently.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Cloud technology is growing rapidly, and we see a new cloud service almost every day. Deploying your product releases rapidly and efficiently is crucial for any business. AWS, being the market leader in the cloud world, has a lot of tools and services which facilitate deployments. Last year, we discussed different deployment options on AWS. Now that AWS has launched some new features, we will present the 2023 version of our previous article on the best AWS deployment options in 2022. We will go through some services and new features not discussed in the previous article.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

We're thrilled to announce that Qovery's DevOps automation software has joined forces with the AWS Activate Program. This program offers startups free tools, resources, content, and expert support to help them build and scale their businesses using Amazon Web Services (AWS). By joining forces, Qovery and AWS Activate Program offer a powerful combination of resources and support that can help startups of all sizes overcome the technical and financial hurdles often associated with cloud infrastructure and accelerate their path to success. In this article, we'll explore what the AWS Activate Program is, the benefits it offers to startups and growing businesses, who is eligible, and how to apply for the program with Qovery.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Platform engineering is a specialized field that focuses on creating and maintaining the infrastructure and services that support the development and deployment of software applications. In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations need to be able to quickly and efficiently deliver new features and updates to their customers. Platform engineering teams play a crucial role in making this possible by providing a stable and reliable foundation for application development. In this article, we will explore the goals of a platform engineering team and the best practices they should follow to build a strong foundation that supports the success of your software development efforts.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The DevOps industry has been experiencing rapid growth over the past few years. However, with this growth comes a shortage of skilled DevOps engineers who can efficiently implement and maintain the practices. Organizations are facing the challenge of finding and retaining qualified professionals, but there is a solution. Utilizing the right tools and technologies can empower organizations to overcome the DevOps talent shortage. In this article, we will explore the current state of the DevOps job market, examine the reasons behind the shortage, and delve into the ways in which tools and technologies can be leveraged to automate and optimize DevOps practices and thus scale them. We will also showcase how a wide range of organizations from different industries and with different sizes have successfully implemented tools and technologies to scale their DevOps practices and overcome the shortage.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructures as code (IaC) tools that allow users to define, configure, and deploy infrastructure resources in a safe, predictable, and repeatable manner. Using declarative configuration files, users can deploy resources across a variety of infrastructure providers, including public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises environments and third-party services. With Terraform, you can even provision multiple deployment environments without duplicating each environment's configuration. Not only can you centralize the environment provisioning configuration, but you can also easily mirror different environments at scale. Today, we will go through the different benefits of managing multiple environments with Terraform. We will also discuss various use cases where you should use terraform.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

DevOps is one of the core pillars of any organization. As the company grows, its processes also scale to absorb the new growth. Scaling DevOps is inevitable for any organization's growth. You cannot scale consistently if your DevOps processes involve a lot of manual steps and take much time to deliver new projects. A scalable DevOps means the system can expand automatically during a high workload and shrink back when the needs are reduced to normal. A successfully scaled DevOps promotes mutual collaboration among teams, reduced bottlenecks in deliveries, faster feedback cycles, and resilient product updates. There is no single recipe to scale DevOps, as the needs of every company vary. However, we have managed to identify some steps which can ensure an efficient scaling of your existing DevOps processes. Let's go through all five steps one by one.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

CI/CD is the process that ensures that code updates are deployed efficiently and reliably. However, more than simply having CI/CD pipelines is required for modern business application development needs. The problems start as soon as your team grows, but your CI/CD process does not. Static CI/CD pipelines result in an operational bottleneck and slow down your application workflow. Today, we will discuss why scaling your CI/CD is an inevitable need for your organization. We will go through the goals of a scaled CI/CD and how to achieve those goals.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Engineering teams’ autonomy and agility are vital in achieving efficient software development. However, manual infrastructure provisioning is a major source of inefficiency and bottleneck. As the developers wait for Ops teams to provision complex infrastructure, they cannot bring the creativity, speed, and agility expected of them. This is the reason successful companies are quickly adopting self-service infrastructure. Self-service of cloud infrastructure is the panacea to all the problems introduced by manual infrastructure provisioning. Today we will discuss why you need self-service, what benefits it provides, and how Qovery can help you with self-service of infrastructure.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Qovery's DevOps automation software has been named a High Performer in the Fall 2022 G2 Reports for the third consecutive time. Today, we’re excited to share that Qovery maintains its High Performer status in its category. We are also grateful for our users’ continued support, which has resulted in us receiving 4.8/5 stars and winning three G2 awards in a row.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Tech companies are gradually adopting the modern CI/CD flow that facilitates rapid releases and fast collaboration between team members. Traditional staging environments are being replaced with ephemeral environments because the shared staging environments do not support the culture of fast-release cycles mentioned earlier. As the traditional staging or testing environments are shared, one developer’s feature can cause bugs, making the whole environment unusable. Similarly, the shared environments do not allow team members to collaborate frequently, so the product does not get the internal feedback it deserves. Ephemeral environments solve all these problems. They have revolutionized the way you perform testing and deployment. Let’s go through the benefits of ephemeral environments and discuss a real-life use case of a company that used ephemeral environments to accelerate its business.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The trend of Platform Engineering is now gaining momentum, which analysts and industry experts refer to as one of the most disruptive philosophies of the moment. But regardless of experts’ predictions and assumptions, what matters for organizations today is understanding what adopting an approach such as Platform Engineering actually entails, what a successful solution looks like, and how to adopt best practices for its implementation. That's what this article is about. A successful Platform Engineering tool will provide immense benefits to the organization. You will achieve rapid product releases, reduce operational complexity, scale applications through environment automation, and many more. However, an effective platform engineering tool must have certain traits to achieve the benefits mentioned above. Today, we will discuss the 7 key factors necessary for a great platform engineering tool. Incorporating these 7 components will ensure that your platform engineering tool will serve its purpose.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

We are thrilled to announce that startups from Crane and Speedinvest portfolios can now leverage Qovery as perks….and much more perks programs to come (stay tuned for new announcements 👀).

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

We have seen a rapid increase in the development pace of product development in the last few years. As a company, you never stop improving your processes. Successful organizations find different ways to optimize the release process to accelerate their product development cycles. Growing companies, especially those with complex products with many integrations, often struggle to keep pace with the growing complexity of processes. One crucial factor in your release process is how your deployment environments work. The world is now shifting from static to dynamic environments.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Organizations are embracing Platform Engineers because it helps development teams deliver software releases much faster. Platform Engineers improve and automate the overall workflow starting from code to the final delivery. In this article, we will try to answer all your questions regarding Platform Engineering. We will discuss why you need Platform Engineering for your business, how it differs from DevOps and SRE, and which companies benefit most from it.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

We all know that Kubernetes is the best container orchestration tool in the industry. However, it is not frequently used in development environments due to its complexity and time to set up. That deprives you of many benefits you can gain from Kubernetes in the development environment. In this article, we will discuss the pros and cons of deploying Kubernetes in a development environment. We will go through various factors which decide the suitability of Kubernetes for your organization. We will conclude the article with the magic sauce that enables you to deploy Kubernetes in your dev environment without facing challenges related to complexity and inefficiency.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The staging environment plays a crucial role in product development. It's the last checkpoint before the product updates are live for customers. Every successful product has a robust and effective staging environment on the back. However, the traditional staging environments cannot keep pace with the modern CI/CD workflow. This article will go through how traditional shared and static staging environments hinder faster deployments and efficiency. We will conclude with how Qovery can help your development teams release faster and cut downtimes & bugs in production with on-demand environments.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Kubernetes is the industry's most popular open-source platform for container orchestration. It helps you automate many tasks related to container management. Companies use it to solve their problems related to deployment, scalability, testing, management, etc. However, Kubernetes is complex and requires a steep learning curve. In this article, we will go through some common Kubernetes pitfalls most companies fall to. These are the issues faced by many companies embracing Kubernetes to scale their business. While discussing the problems, we will also highlight how to avoid or fix them. Ultimately, we will discuss the best solution for getting the most out of Kubernetes without facing its complexities.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

This article will discuss Ephemeral Environments and how they solve the problems mentioned above with a simple but powerful solution. We will describe its benefits to organizations and how the modern workflow based on ephemeral environments differs from the traditional workflow. Ultimately, we will discuss how to get started with ephemeral environments.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Application containerization has disrupted the way software applications have been built and deployed. Over the years, Kubernetes has stood out as one of the best platforms for container orchestration. It has helped many companies achieve scalability, resilience, portability, and better resource utilization in their products. However, managing Kubernetes is still complex. The first question which comes to mind is whether we should use a single cluster or a multi-cluster for Kubernetes. Although a single cluster is easy to set up and manage and provides the basic features of Kubernetes, it lacks the typical resilience and high availability Kubernetes is famous for. In many cases, a single cluster is not enough to manage the load efficiently across all components. As a result, we need more than one cluster for a better division of workload and resources, hence the need for a multi-cluster solution. In this article, we will discuss in detail multi-cluster Kubernetes, why it is used, and when we should prefer it over single-cluster.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

You must adopt proper infrastructure automation if you want to enable your teams to achieve faster application delivery while eliminating human errors. Automation of servers, deployment environments, configuration management, and deployments play a vital role in getting a competitive advantage for your product. Monitoring both the infrastructure and application is equally important as well. In this article, we will discuss top DevOps Automation tools for infrastructure automation and monitoring.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

If you are part of a DevOps or Cloud engineering team struggling to set up and maintain proper environments, then this article is for you. We will discuss “On-demand” environments in detail. We will go through its benefits, how development teams can take advantage of it, and how Qovery’s on-demand environments give you a competitive advantage in the business.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Consider the scenario where a complex product is being developed by dozens of engineers working on different features of a product. Not only the development environment is the same, but the staging environment is also shared. As different features are merged into the shared environment, they break the code. So QA has to wait until this is fixed. A feature or bug fix may be working perfectly on the developer’s own machine, but there is no way for the QA team to test that one feature in isolation. This problem is intensified when the product has a lot of integrations and different data sources. The DevOps team simply cannot provision so many different environments on time; they will miss the bus. If developers keep using the same shared staging environment, it will take ages to deliver a mature product to the market. This is where the concept of preview environments comes into play. In this article, we will tell you what preview environments are and how they solve the above problems. We will also discuss why so many DevOps teams are adopting it to improve team productivity.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

It's common practice that development environments for the same product are kept the same (or at least compatible) for smooth software development life cycle (SDLC) workflow. That brings the question, why do we need more than one environment for the same product. In today’s modern software development, it is crucial for product development teams to maintain an effective and rapid workflow if they want to gain a competitive edge in the product market. Having a well-tuned workflow not only results in high productivity but also helps them deliver reliable software that is delivered on time and meets customer expectations.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Two years ago today, we shared some insights of 200 CTOs from growing US and EU startups on the topics of the Cloud and their working methodologies (to find out here). Welcome to the second series: “Heroku Dilemma: The Growing Startups' Journey.”

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

A quick guide on the advantages of using Qovery as your preferred apps deployment platform—and how to build a faster AWS production-ready with it.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Docker is the industry leader in the world of containerization. While the concept of containers is not new, still, it was not easy to create new containers. The underlying operating system complexities of creating a container were very challenging. Docker changed that and made things easier by handling the complexities mentioned above to launch a container. It's now super easy for developers to build, manage, scale and deploy their applications securely using Docker.  In this article, we will go through best practices when using Docker containers. Using these practices will ensure you will get the most out of Docker, including better security, faster application startup, faster deployments, fault tolerance, etc.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

A container is an isolated unit of software running on top of an operating system. Containers are getting popular among startups because containerized applications are portable, have built-in scalability fault tolerance, and promote faster development cycles. That’s why startups prefer containers for new application development to gain a business advantage over competitors who are still using VMs for application deployment and packaging. In this article, we will discuss the major benefits of containerization for growing startups and how organizations can take advantage of these benefits to make their applications a success. Let’s go through the critical points below!

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

CI/CD is now an inevitable need of every modern application. Many startup companies adopt CI/CD with a good cloud vendor. Still, they do not follow the guidelines needed for successful deployment, and even if they do that, they find difficulty scaling the application. Here in this article, we will go through a comprehensive checklist to help you perform stable and successful production deployments on AWS. Although it varies from business to business, we will try to go through a list of the most necessary items for any application on AWS going live. Let’s go through this one by one.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Welcome to the second post in a series of “Implementing Microservices on AWS with the Twelve-factor App”. In the first post, we covered the areas around the codebase, configuration, code packaging, code builds, and stateless processes.  This article will go through the remaining areas for best practices in microservices.  Let’s start the discussion with Port mapping!

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

AWS is a beast in cloud services and has more than 200+ services. It is not easy for a novice user to select the services that fit his need. Even after selecting the right service, you need to make sure you use it the right way because each service has many different variants. In this article, we will guide you about the top 5 most frequently used AWS services which every developer must know.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

The Twelve-Factor methodology is a set of best practices for developing microservices applications. These practices are segregated into twelve different areas of application development. Twelve-factor is the standard architectural pattern to develop SaaS-based modern and scalable cloud applications. It is highly recommended by AWS if you are building containerized microservices. In this article, we will guide you on how to develop applications that will use microservices deployed on containers in AWS. We will discuss the first six areas today. And in the next article (part 2), we will discuss best practices for the remaining six areas.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

AWS ELB (Elastic load balancer) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs). That helps you achieve high availability and fault tolerance. In this article, we will share with you some tips that will help you best utilize AWS load balancer. We will also provide insights on the best use cases of ALB and NLB, which are the two most commonly used load balancers.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Using containers for microservices has gained a lot of popularity in the last decade or so. Developing the application through microservices across multiple containers results in the best of both worlds. It provides resilience as well as agility through scaling and improvements. Before we dwell on how containers and microservices form an ideal combination, let’s start with a basic understanding of microservices and containers.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy for you to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications. Although ECS is a managed service and hides many complexities under the hood, there have been many cases where startups have not been able to take full advantage of ECS due to slow deployments. In this article, we will share some tips to improve deployment speed on ECS. We will try to cover both EC2 tasks and Fargate tasks.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Containers are superior to Virtual Machines (VM) in many aspects, including the benefits of being lightweight, easily scalable, highly portable, etc. AWS provides two primary container services i.e., Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Although both ECS and EKS are growing in popularity but achieving security while using these services is relatively a new topic.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Heroku and AWS are two of the common choices available for cloud hosting. Heroku is a Platform as Service (PaaS) provider that helps startups develop business applications with simplicity and without needing DevOps expertise in the team. Not only does it provide resources automatically, but you can deploy your applications with just a single click. Heroku has been a top choice for developers for years as it speeds up development cycles by providing fully managed infrastructure and application deployment. AWS is an Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) provider which offers computing power, database, storage, content delivery, and many other services. Although Heroku is ideal for startups because it provides tremendous simplicity and time-saving, when your application starts growing, and its architecture becomes complex, then challenges related to DevOps, data security, and scalability start to jump in. The article below will provide a brief comparison between AWS and Heroku regarding data security.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Adopting AWS as your cloud infrastructure seems to be a common choice for most growing companies, but it is not as easy as it looks. Choosing the right services, configuration, and management of these services needs skills and experience. At Qovery, we've heard hundreds of stories about the mistakes made by startups on AWS, and here are the biggest ones. Make sure you take care of these pitfalls when you start your journey on AWS, which will help you successfully migrate and set up on AWS.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Over the last few years, business needs for new applications and services have increased tremendously, resulting in a need to accelerate the application development process. Moreover, the process of development has changed radically. Development is fast-paced and needs continuous application updates, patching, enhancements, etc. These changes require development environments, quality assurance, continuous deployment, infrastructure, etc. That’s where EaaS comes in. EaaS (Environment as Service) offers environments in the form of service so that you can easily manage all your environments efficiently and quickly. EaaS eliminates the application environment bottlenecks and enables faster innovation at scale. An environment consists of infrastructure, software, code, configuration, and all the runtime libraries required to run your application in an isolated environment.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Suppose you are going to adopt AWS as your cloud provider. Whether you are migrating from some other cloud providers or it is your first time setting up your application’s infrastructure on the cloud, This article will be immensely beneficial for you. AWS is an industry leader in cloud innovation technologies and carries the largest market share among cloud providers. In this article, we will go through a checklist aimed at startups and growing companies who wish to migrate to AWS for their cloud needs.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Deployment is an essential stage of any software development project. With the fast-paced modern agile software development needs, deployment frequency increases rapidly. Although it looks very appealing to often release due to its positive impact on customer satisfaction and improved customer engagement, it is risky at the same time. What if the deployment goes wrong on production? It will have a much more significant negative impact on the business if you do not have the right expertise to support frequent deployments and the proper deployment tools. In this article, we will go through some of the best deployment practices. Following these will ensure that you can frequently deploy on any scale correctly. Let’s jump in.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

When designing a solution, you should keep future needs in mind. If the number of users increases dramatically in a short period of time, the solution should be scalable enough to handle the new growth. Making systems scalable on cloud is relatively easier as compared to scaling on-premises infrastructure. AWS has provided excellent tools/services to enable your applications for as much scalability as you want. Note that scaling down is as important as scaling up because cost is important when designing for scalability. In this two-part article, we will go through the tools and services provided by Amazon, which can help you scale your existing AWS infrastructure. Let’s go through these services and evaluate the benefits and business cases of each of these.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Welcome to the second post in a series of “How to Scale your AWS Infrastructure”. In the first post, we talked about horizontal scaling, autoscaling, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, containerization, etc. In this post, we will continue the discussion around databases, loose coupling, caching, CDN, etc.  Let’s start the discussion with database scaling.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Let’s face it. Gaining a competitive advantage in the target market is expensive. Even if you have a good idea and its execution plan in mind, operations related to management, storage, networking, service provisioning, security, and application management will cost you a fortune. To say the least, a cutting-edge IT infrastructure, a reliable team, and a strategy for rapid product releases or expansion/scaling is a must for your product’s success.  As a startup, going forward with rolling or building your own solution could prove to be tiring and much over the budget. It will eat up your team's time in the building, rebuilding, scaling, refactoring, following security measures, and whatnot.  Assuming that you are developing a solution with the wish to succeed, your initial product or MVP needs to be altered frequently too. In such a scenario, AWS Managed Services can simplify your life. Read what it is, what are its pros and cons, and how to reach the final verdict between whether to release your own solution or go ahead with AWS Managed Services.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Containerization packages a software component and its environment, dependencies, and configuration into an isolated unit called a container. That makes it possible to deploy an application consistently across different computing environments, whether on-premises or on the cloud. The concept of containerization is more than a decade old. Still, the emergence of Docker in 2013 - an industry standard for containers with simple development tools and a universal packaging approach - has accelerated the adoption of the technology. Organizations are now increasingly using containerization to build new applications and to modernize existing applications for the cloud. They start and stop much faster as compared to virtual machines. They are more portable because container host environments are very consistent, irrespective of the operating system hosting them. Containerized applications are easy to scale because containers can be added or removed quickly from an environment.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Our pricing model has evolved since we wrote this article - check out our new pricing model Pricing is a complex topic matter, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to pricing. Few things impact growth and revenue as much as your pricing. Finding the right balance between value and revenue will make or break your business. While most founders have a clear product vision and have thought through things like their go-to-market strategy or hiring plans, surprisingly, few have an idea about what their pricing should look like.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS-managed service. It is used by startups, small & mid-sized businesses for web application development. As it comes pre-configured with EC2 server and is efficient at using automatic provisioning of services and resources, handling application code and environment configurations seems easier with this PaaS solution. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a go-to option for various startups, small & mid-sized businesses. You might love his managed service for a while, as it comes pre-configured with an EC2 server and automates multiple web app development, scaling, and maintenance tasks for you. However, in the long run, you may find it complex, troublesome, confusing, and lacking on many fronts.  Is this the case? Well, we will tell you about top AWS Elastic Beanstalk alternatives in a minute, but let’s first ponder over its pros and cons to prove our point.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Software development no more emphasizes “final delivery” or deployment of a project. It is more about “continuous delivery and integration” today. The market also demands rapid delivery and updates without missing out on elements like ‘quality’ and ‘innovation.’ So, instead of building a super-robust well-tested product at once, developers focus on faster and bug-free releases to create a reliable product over time. For startups, the environment is even more pressing because these businesses have to meet their users’ requirements using a limited budget and resource-set. Competition is a different deal altogether. DevOps, a set of practices promoting continuous delivery/integration, can help you here.  Experts finding traditional operations 41% more time-consuming say it is why DevOps is a better choice. However, it doesn’t always mean that you need to hire DevOps engineers.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Developers love containers for their portability and flexibility. Suitable for today’s cloud-native environment and agile development requirements, containers make it super-fast to develop, test, and run applications. Besides this, they are lightweight and can optimize the platform (and the host OS) they are deployed on. Now, for powerful applications with hundreds of containers, the platform should also be portable, flexible, extensible, and efficient. It should allow managing containerized workloads and services to support modern applications effortlessly. Kubernetes, the famous container orchestration platform, makes the best choice in this regard.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

When we talk about various deployment and infrastructure provisioning choices on AWS, each option serves a particular set of users and needs. Some of Amazon's most common deployment services include Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, and CodeDeploy. In containerization, there are options like ECS, EKS, Fargate, etc.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Heroku Vs. AWS remains a long and persistent debate among developers. Both platforms have strengths and weaknesses. Over the last 10 years, Heroku and AWS played a huge role in the cloud hosting and software development industry, by significantly unlocking productivity in a way that it has never been reached before. They are the platforms behind most of the successes from the last decade. However, we are in 2022 and it still looks like if we (developers) were in 2010 to deploy our apps in the cloud.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Companies that want to take care of their customers have to invest in a Customer Success team and define the right strategy (Thanks Rav Dhaliwal for your help here). Thinking about customer success is typically something that happens much later (too late?) after the Sales efforts. Growth pressure on startups puts effort in the sales machine to close as many customers as possible while forgetting that growth comes from the current customers. A happy customer is less likely to churn. A delighted customer is more likely to sales your product for you. Since we launched Qovery, we have learned a lot. In this post, I will share how we built our sustainable growth engine.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Suppose you've built a web application and started getting a few customers. After some feedback and iterations, you are ready with a product that people want. From now, your application is drawing attention to more and more users, with more and more requests per minute (RPM). Suddenly, a wave of new people use your app, and at one point, they can't use it anymore. While testing your app, you realize that it's working correctly. So what happened? You are simply facing a scalability problem. Your cloud architecture is probably not designed to scale with increasing load. When it comes to modern web apps, scalability is vital. A successful web application needs to perform well and be designed with scalability in mind, meaning to handle an increase in users and load without service disruptions (and then deliver a great experience to users, no matter how many they are).

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

In the last years, Kubernetes has grown tremendously and is considered by most companies to be the best platform to run applications today. In simple words, Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that allows you to run and manage containerized applications at scale. In this article, I will explain how you can run Kubernetes on AWS in 3 different ways. But before getting down the road, let me explain why it does make sense to run Kubernetes on AWS.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

To celebrate this new year, Qovery's blog highlights some of the top blog posts Qovery's engineers wrote during 2021 that you should read for 2022. Take a look at the top 10 posts published in 2021.

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

As a developer, using Heroku (a Platform as a Service (PaaS)) helps get our applications up and running quickly without worrying about servers, scaling, backup, network, and so many underground details. Heroku is the perfect solution to start a project. But as the project grows, the needs become more complex, and moving from Heroku to Amazon Web Services (AWS) becomes more and more a no-brainer choice (discover why so many CTOs decide to move from Heroku to AWS). In this article, I'll compare Heroku and AWS on the features, pricing, scaling, and developer experience criteria. At the end of the article, you will better understand what to choose between Heroku and AWS in 2023. Let's go!

Morgan Perry

Co-founder

Qovery’s founding team (Romaric, Pierre, and myself) recently participated in the Techstars 2019 accelerator program in Paris. It was an intense 3-month experience during which we had an incredible time, both professional and personal. In this post, I will share a bit more with you about what this adventure was all about, but the main takeaway here is that it was instrumental in helping us lay the foundations for Qovery and establish our new mission. After those three incredible months, we are ready to carry on but before we do that, let’s take a little time to unpack everything while it is still fresh.  ‍

Morgan Perry

Co-founder