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Product
FinOps
3
 minutes
4 Tips With Qovery To Reduce Your Cloud Costs

While the cloud offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability lead to uncontrolled costs.  Cloud costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze — and without some system of identifying the source of costs and how to manage them — they can quickly undermine your profit margins. Since Qovery makes it easy to create on-demand environments, it can drastically grow your cloud costs. In this guide, we’ll look at some Qovery features that help to keep your cost under control, let's go!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Engineering
3
 minutes
Your CI GitFlow is Broken

One of the great things about GitFlow is that it makes parallel development very easy by isolating new development from finished work. New development, such as features, is done in feature branches and is only merged back into the main body of code when developers have validated the feature and the code is ready for release. For most development teams, feature validation happens in a staging branch coupled with a single testing environment. When this single environment is broken, releases are delayed, developers are stressed, and your team loses the benefits of GitFlow - promoting parallel development. In this article, I will explain why using a single testing environment breaks the GitFlow benefits and introduce a solution to get dynamic testing environments per branch - Preview Environments.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
1
 minutes
Qovery is a G2 High Performer for Summer 2022

We at Qovery are excited to announce that G2 has named Qovery as a Summer 2022 High Performer in the following categories: Continuous Deployment / Environment as a Service. G2 is the world’s largest tech marketplace. The High Performer Award recognizes companies with high customer satisfaction ratings relative to their market presence.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Heroku
14
 minutes
Top 10 Alternatives of Heroku in 2024

A while ago, Heroku made the surprising decision to discontinue its free tier, leaving many developers searching for alternatives. This decision followed Salesforce's acquisition of Heroku, with the platform refocusing its energies towards serving "mission-critical" businesses. But every cloud has a silver lining. The evolving landscape of cloud platforms has created numerous alternatives that are on par with or even surpass what Heroku offers, both in terms of features and pricing. This article dives deep into the top ten of these contenders, shedding light on what each brings to the table. We will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each alternate, along with the pricing model. Let’s start with the first one, Qovery.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Engineering
10
 minutes
My Feedback about Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks

2 months ago, I discovered Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks to build a final container image that simply works. I’ve tried it with multiple projects, and the promise is very good. I feel it is less black magic than Buildpacks and easily extensible. In this article, I will share my feedback on the pros and the cons of this emerging project. Let's go!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
Product
DevOps
5
 minutes
Why DevOps Engineers Love and Recommend Qovery

My team and I built Qovery to empower DevOps engineers and Developers to better work together - without compromises. In 2022, DevOps engineers need to build reliable infrastructure on top of the best cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), dealing with security concerns, productivity, reliability, and many services. DevOps engineers are responsible for a lot of things in an organization. From CI/CD, to the run of the apps in production and the backup of databases. Needless to say, they need to help Developers ship features, improvements and fix bugs as fast as possible. DevOps in 2022 is not an easy job. They need to master so many things in a short period that any product that can help them in their day-to-day work is appreciated. That's why Qovery exists! In this article, I will share feedback from DevOps engineers using Qovery's DevOps Automation Tool and why they love and recommend using it! Let's go 👇

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Terraform
Qovery
AWS
4
 minutes
Create Outstanding AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and Qovery

Terraform combined with Qovery is like giving superpower to DevOps and developers. I am super excited to launch a brand new GitHub repository with "ready-to-use" examples to deploy crazy AWS cloud architecture with Terraform and Qovery. Feel free to use them, modify them and share them with us and our community.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
Qovery
1
 minutes
New integration: Receive deployment notifications into Slack

I am super excited to announce that we have released our Slack integration. Then, you no longer need to watch your emails or keep watching the Qovery console to know if a deployment has occurred with success (or not 😁).

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Heroku
AWS
1
 minutes
The ultimate guide to migrate from Heroku to AWS

We have completely updated our migration guide from Heroku to AWS. This guide covers everything needed to migrate from Heroku to AWS a complete stack of applications and databases.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Cloud
Qovery
8
 minutes
The Top 10 AWS Architectures Built with Qovery in 2023

We are in 2023, and hundreds of startups have built their infrastructure on AWS using Qovery's DevOps automation tool. This article will share the 10 best (and fancy) AWS architectures our customers have made. From the most classic architecture to the craziest 🤪 It can give you some ideas. Let's go 🚀

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
Netlify
AWS
6
 minutes
We built the "Netlify for backend" that runs on your AWS account!

In 2020, my co-founders and I had this crazy idea of bringing a better Developer Experience on top of AWS. As developers often start on a path with a simple React app or a JS tool, they need a platform that would support them throughout the process of building robust applications. You know, the one that any developer can build and deploy their next successful product in seconds using their preferred tools. Somehow, AWS lacked this offering 😅. This is where Netlify, especially Netlify functions, came in as an inspiration, especially with its ease of settings configuration. The Developer Experience on Netlify, where deploying an application is as easy as pushing code to Git, attracted many. But while many use Netlify for frontend, it doesn’t run on your AWS account :(. In 2 years, 20,000+ developers and hundreds of companies have transitioned from Netlify to AWS with Qovery, leveraging the unique settings and Developer Experience.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
RepliByte
Engineering
2
 minutes
Announcement: RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed your development database with real data ⚡️

After weeks of hard work, we are super excited to announce RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed your development database with real data ⚡️

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
1
 minutes
We Build The Future Of The Cloud ⚡️

At Qovery — Our Team Build The Future Of The Cloud 🔥 Proud of our team and what we have done in 2 years! Thanks to our 20k developers using Qovery, our customers, our partners, our investors. We Are Building The Future Of The Cloud Together 😊

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
14
 minutes
EKS vs. AKS: Key Differences & Which Managed Kubernetes is Right For You?

Compare the differences between AWS (EKS) & Azure Kubernetes (AKS) for scalability, cost, and features. Discover how Qovery simplifies K8s management, accelerating your delivery on both platforms.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Kubernetes
Cloud
7
 minutes
Kubernetes vs Nomad: What to Choose in 2022?

Kubernetes has become an enormously popular choice for containerized applications since its 2014 launch. Many software developers rely on the tool, which is now in v1.23.1. However, there are other choices on the market for container orchestration. One such tool is Nomad, originally launched in 2015. Generally pitched as an alternative to Kubernetes, Nomad, which most recently released v1.2, promotes itself as a simple, flexible option for software teams. This article will offer a comparison of the two container orchestration tools, so you can decide which will work best for your applications in 2022.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Terraform
6
 minutes
37 minutes to deploy a fullstack app on my new AWS account

Today, I was working on our Terraform Provider, and I noticed that I never tried to deploy an application from scratch on a new and clean AWS account. Meaning, an empty AWS account - with 0 resources created. No VPC, no EC2, no Load Balancer, nothing... just an IAM user to get access to my AWS account programmatically. This post explains what I did and how it took 37 minutes and 33 seconds to literally: create a VPC (10 min) create an EKS cluster and a load balancer (5 min) create an ECR repository (10 sec) deploy an RDS database (15 min) build and deploy my Django app from GitHub (2 min) add a custom domain to my app (2 min) create a TLS for my custom domain (15 sec) And tada! 🎉 😅 Let's explain all of that!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
Terraform
Product
6
 minutes
The Qovery Terraform Provider is Available Now

Big news! The Qovery Terraform Provider is now publicly available for everyone! This article will show you what you can do and why you should consider using Terraform with Qovery.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Product
Qovery
3
 minutes
How a team of 15 developers deploys 4200 times per Month using the Preview Environments

When the CTO of this growing company (freshly acquired by a billion-dollar company) contacted me, he was concerned by the ability of his team to deliver what they committed to for the current year. His main issue was 15 engineers working in the same development environment. Can you imagine developing on the same workstation? Things will get worst as they plan to quadruple their engineering team size in the next 18 months. They tried to set up ephemeral environments with Terraform, Kubernetes, and other great tools but they literally failed by the complexity of building such kind of system with a tech stack of 8 applications and databases.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Scaleway
Kubernetes
8
 minutes
Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs Scaleway Kubernetes Kapsule

The container orchestration tool Kubernetes helps an increasing number of companies to automate, scale, and manage their containerized application deployments. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the open-source software foundation that hosts and maintains Kubernetes, adoption of the platform increased from seventy-eight percent in 2019 to eighty-three percent in 2020. Its popularity is due to the benefits it offers, like scaling resources when needed, reducing downtime, and managing your application on multiple servers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Engineering
Kubernetes
3
 minutes
Kubernetes Tips: How to find the Port of a Service with a DNS request

Last week I created a guide for our users to set up an NGINX service as an API Gateway with Qovery. The API gateway must redirect the incoming traffic to the appropriate service with the correct port. My problem is that the API Gateway does not know the ports exposed for every service. In this post, I will show you a quick tip on finding the port of a Kubernetes service with a single DNS request. Let's go!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Business
DevSecOps
4
 minutes
How to become HIPAA compliant on AWS in 2022?

Since the 90s, when you run a company in the Healthcare industry in the US market, you must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. Some of the security rules are directly linked to how you operate your organization, the others how you manage your application data for your customers. This article will walk you through what to consider on AWS to be HIPAA compliant in 2022.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Digital Ocean
Kubernetes
8
 minutes
Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs DigitalOcean Kubernetes

The container orchestration service Kubernetes has taken cloud-native application hosting by storm. By automating infrastructure tasks, Kubernetes—an open-source system designed by Google—simplifies the technical work of application deployment, scaling, and management. Managed Kubernetes services take this process a step further, handling more of the management tasks so that engineers can focus more time and resources on developing apps. Every cloud services provider offers its own managed Kubernetes service. Two appealing options are Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon’s Kubernetes distribution, and DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS).

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
9
 minutes
Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs GKE

Kubernetes is changing the tech space as it becomes increasingly prominent across various industries and environments. Kubernetes can now be found in on-premise data centers, cloud environments, edge solutions, and even space. As a container orchestration system, Kubernetes automatically manages the availability and scalability of your containerized applications. Its architecture consists of various planes that make up what is known as a cluster. This cluster can be implemented (or deployed) in multiple ways, including adopting a CNCF-certified hosted or managed Kubernetes cluster.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
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8
 minutes
How To Use Buildpacks To Run Containers

The high demand to deliver software that is both highly available and able to meet customer requests has, in part, led to the adoption of microservice architecture, a software architecture pattern that makes it easier to deploy applications as self-contained entities called containers. These containers are nothing but processes that run as long as the application in them is running. This has made containerization the de facto standard for deploying applications and has brought about the development of several new tools and technologies like Kubernetes and Service Mesh.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
4
 minutes
Are you ready for 2022?

2021 has been a crazy year for the Qovery team. When I look back, 1 year ago we were 4 in the team, now we are 15! We expect to double the size of the team for 2022 while keeping our developer DNA. 2022 looks bright, and we strive to make the cloud simple for everyone.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Heroku
AWS
4
 minutes
The 5 main reasons why startups leave Heroku for AWS

Heroku is a cloud-based platform that helps companies build, deliver, monitor, and scale applications with high velocity. Heroku's popularity is due to its simplicity, usability, elegance, and focus on the developer experience. Developers find Heroku helpful as they can get their application ready and running with only minimal focus on configuring infrastructure. Heroku scores on easiness in architecting apps, deploying them to flexible cloud infrastructure, and scaling them as required. However, startups and a few organizations are seeking to move away from Heroku for AWS in recent times. In this article, you will learn why hundreds of CTOs and developers from growing startups have decided to move out of Heroku for AWS.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Kubernetes
10
 minutes
How does Kubernetes Work? Everything you should know

So you’ve heard of Kubernetes, and you’ve decided it’s time to dive into this cloud native architecture thateveryone’s talking about. Or maybe you’ve worked with it a little, but you’d like to level up.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Terraform
Business
8
 minutes
Pulumi vs Terraform: What are the Differences

Traditionally, provisioning an infrastructure meant a team of field engineers, system admins, storage admins, backup admins, and an application team would all provision and maintain an on-premises data center. Although this system works, it has a few flaws—slow deployment, high cost of setup and maintenance, limited automation, human error, inconsistency, and the underutilization of resources during off-peak periods.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
The Preview Environment feature is GA!

I am super excited to announce that our Preview Environment feature is GA (Globally Available) for everyone 🥳.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
2
 minutes
We lost 3800 stars on Github in 1 click 😭

Yesterday was my worst day for a very long time. We spent so much time promoting our Qovery Engine to the open-source community and getting those ~3800 stars. I woke up and discovered that we had lost all the stars and forks from our repository. But what happened?

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
Preview Environment in Early Access

This is the most exciting feature we launched since Qovery v2 has been released - the Preview Environment feature!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Heroku
GCP
Scaleway
AWS
6
 minutes
Best Heroku Alternatives for 2023

So you’ve just created a new project and want to start distributing it, but you still don’t know how to manage its deployment. Then there’s the monitoring, network request, and a lot of other problems related to modern apps. At the same time, you want to avoid working directly with AWS due to its intricacy.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Engineering
8
 minutes
Best Practices and Tips for Writing a Dockerfile

Docker is a high-level virtualization platform that lets you package software as isolated units called containers. Containers are created from images that include everything needed to run the packaged workload, such as executable binaries and dependency libraries. Images are defined in Dockerfiles. These resemble sequential scripts that are executed to assemble an image. Dockerfiles can include several kinds of instructions, such as RUN, to execute a command in the container’s file system, and COPY to add files from your host. In this article, you’ll learn about the key characteristics of Dockerfiles and some best practices to be aware of when you’re writing your own Dockerfiles. Adhering to these guidelines helps you reap the benefits of the containerization movement while minimizing risks in terms of security and performance issues.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
8
 minutes
Guide To AWS Load Balancers

The AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones, ultimately increasing the availability and fault tolerance of your applications. In other words, ELB, as its name implies, is responsible for distributing frontend traffic to backend servers in a balanced manner. ELB monitors the health of its registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. For example, if a system has only one web server, for system applications with high traffic, long response times or no response will often occur. At this time, you will want to increase the specifications of the web server or increase the number of web servers. If there are two web servers, on which server should the traffic come in? At this time, there must be something responsible for receiving and distributing traffic. That something is ELB.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Cloud
Business
10
 minutes
The Best Tools for Monitoring Your Docker Container in 2025

It can be difficult to comprehend and successfully scale your services as modern orchestrated settings grow larger and more sophisticated. Container monitoring allows you to see the health and performance of your dynamic container infrastructure in real-time. Container monitoring is the practice of collecting and analyzing performance metrics to track the performance of containerized applications built on cloud-based microservices. Monitoring systems aid DevOps teams in identifying and resolving performance issues more quickly. Docker is a software development and deployment platform that uses small containers as lightweight virtual machines. This in-depth roundup will cover a few of the best open-source and proprietary tools for monitoring the performance and utilization of your Docker containers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
News: A brand new documentation website is out!

The Qovery team is happy to announce that the new documentation website is out!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
Product
1
 minutes
We have open-sourced our deployment engine 🔥

After months of hard work with our team of 6. We're glad to announce that our deployment engine is now open-source. Now it's time and possible to contribute.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
5
 minutes
Why we moved from Slack to Discord?

Today, at Qovery we have moved from Slack to Discord. We are a software company solving developer problems - application deployment. Solving developer problems require to have a close contact with the developers community. For team communication, we used a dedicated Slack workspace, for community communication - another one. Discord has been a real lifesaver for us. Let's start to tell you why..

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
5
 minutes
I interviewed 200 CTOs from growing startups - here's what came up

Between late 2019 and early 2020, I interviewed more than 200 CTOs of growing US and EU startups on the topics of the Cloud and their working methodologies. I discovered that 86% of these SMB startups use the Cloud and that 48% started their business on Heroku and then migrated to a Cloud provider - especially AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Kubernetes
Business
5
 minutes
7 things no one will ever tell you about Kubernetes

Kubernetes is the most popular Open Source technology of the last five years. Google created it to allow companies to use container (Docker) applications in production. Today, Kubernetes is the new standard for running applications in the Cloud or on its servers (on-premise). I even heard from a Cloud architect from Azure: "our customers no longer come to us to do Cloud, but to do Kubernetes". That's to say how much a utility software* upsets a whole ecosystem. Despite all the very positive elements we can read about Kubernetes, there are also dark sides. Here are the seven things that nobody will tell you about Kubernetes.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
5
 minutes
Qovery: superpowers for developer - multiple environments

All developers are not equal, some know-how to deploy their applications, others don’t. But now it’s over! With Qovery, all developers can deploy their application in the Cloud in just a few seconds. Qovery integrates seamlessly with Github and requires no effort from the developer. We know how it can be painful for developers to deploy applications, manage staging/development/features environments, synchronize databases and all system stuff - even in the Cloud.  Developers should spend time doing what they love - developing applications, instead of wasting time on configuring databases, CDN, cache, network... That's why we decided to create Qovery. The first Container as a Service platform that allows any developer (junior, senior, backend, frontend...) to deploy applications in just a few minutes.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
6
 minutes
Hashicorp Waypoint vs Heroku: What is the best PaaS for your team?

This week, Hashicorp announced the launch of their new product - Waypoint - aiming to simplify the way developers build and run apps in the Cloud and on any platform (like Kubernetes). The project is open source and is well adapted by the dev community. As CEO and co-founder of Qovery, I am enthusiastic to see this product live. At Qovery, we believe in making the developer’s life more accessible, and seeing big Open Source companies moving in this direction is a good thing for all of us. In this article, I will compare and contrast Hashicorp Waypoint to Heroku. Why? Because Hashicorp created Waypoint to provide an alternative to PaaS (Platform as a Service) like Heroku. Which is, in my opinion targeting two different types of developers. Let’s go TLDR; For devs, Waypoint is a higher-level of abstraction than Terraform, but it's not as simple as Heroku.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
5
 minutes
3 ways of cloning an application and a database per git branch

Back in the early days of software development, having multiple developers working on the same application was a tough challenge. That’s why VCS (Version Control System) like Git was created and methodology like Feature Branching was introduced.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Events
1
 minutes
Join us at the Hasura con 2020

Hasura is a turnkey engine that connects your micro-services and database to generate a real-time GraphQL API. That is super cool. Hasura and Qovery is a perfect match to deploy production-ready GraphQL service in just a few seconds. That's why the Hasura team invited us to show the world what we do.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
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4
 minutes
Feedback: 6 benefits of Kotlin for building server-side applications

Kotlin is a programming language over the JVM (like Java). It is well known for being the official programming language for Android. But Kotlin is a reliable and powerful programming language that can also be used for server-side applications.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
July 2020, What's new? Qovery Business, Web Interface, Faster deployments

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Month in Qovery! Qovery helps developers to deploy their applications in the Cloud in just a few seconds. This is a monthly summary of its progress and community. Do you build something with Qovery? Do you want to be mentioned? Tweet us at @Qovery_ or reply to this email. Want to get involved? Join the community. WE ARE HIRING👨‍💻 Needless to say - we are hiring passionate engineers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Heroku
AWS
Business
13
 minutes
3 Reasons Why Your Startup Should Move From Heroku To AWS

Heroku and AWS (Amazon Web Services) are the two most commonly used cloud services in present times. It lets a business deploy, monitor, and scale mobile and web applications. Both services are great for hosting applications and offer cloud computing resources.  Choosing the best hosting service becomes difficult when you glance at the plethora of products that AWS offers. If you are planning to switch to AWS from Heroku, you have come to the right place. This detailed article will tell you why AWS is the better choice for you in the long run.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
June 2020, What's new? Gitlab support, persistent storage, faster deployments...

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Month in Qovery! Qovery helps developers to deploy their applications in the Cloud in just a few seconds. This is a monthly summary of its progress and community. Do you build something with Qovery? Do you want to be mentioned? Tweet us at @Qovery_. Want to get involved? Join the community. WE ARE HIRING👨‍💻 Needless to say - we are hiring passionate engineers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
1
 minutes
We raised $1M pre-seed round to simplify application deployment in the Cloud

I am thrilled to announce that we have raised a $1M pre-seed round with top notch investors. Among them are top entrepreneurs and Cloud experts like Alexis Lê-Quôc, co-founder and CTO at Datadog, and Sebastien Pahl, Co-founder of Docker. Qovery will use the funds to strengthen its research and development team and extend their offer to technology companies in Europe and in the US.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Heroku
Qovery
3
 minutes
Startup: get the Heroku experience on your AWS account

Heroku meets the needs of individual developers who want to deploy their applications seamlessly. The only requirement is to use a git repository and link your git repository to your Heroku account.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
May 2020, What's new? Custom domain, dotenv file, CLI improvements, Hasura Con 2020

In this Newsletter, we're happy to introduce some updates: Custom domain, dotenv file, CLI improvements, and new resources.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
1
 minutes
Qovery is now part of the CNCF

Qovery is excited to announce that we are now a silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation (LF). As a CNCF silver member, we are looking forward to contributing to CNCF projects and playing an active role in developing the cloud-native ecosystem.  Qovery also recently made its deployment engine open-source, an abstraction layer library that turns easy apps deployment on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other Cloud providers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Heroku
4
 minutes
Qovery and the Twelve-Factor App methodology

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building platform-agnostic and resilient applications. It was introduced by Adam Wiggins while working at Heroku in 2011. Nearly 10 years later, this methodology is still considered by the developer community as an excellent practice to follow when building an application. In this article, we will see step by step how Qovery's DevOps automation software respects and improves the 12-factor methodology. Here we go.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Cloud
Kubernetes
12
 minutes
How Kubernetes Drastically Changed The Face Of The Cloud

‍Kubernetes is an open-source platform that is used for automating computer application configuration, scaling, and deployment. In order to understand the importance of Kubernetes, let us take a step back and understand why this platform was introduced in the first place.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Cloud
7
 minutes
Why Rust Has a Bright Future in the Cloud

Rust is a programming language? Have you heard the question from your developer friends?  Well, Rust has broken into TIOBE Top 20 Most Popular Programming Languages. Briefly stated Rust is a direct competitor to C and C++ and at a lesser level competes with Java and C#.  There has been rapid adoption by open source projects by Mozilla, Polkadot, and Deno besides exciting system programming enterprise action from the likes of Google, AWS, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Dropbox, and many others. Let us explore more on this fascinating programming language, its advantages, and its growing popularity in today's emerging technology world.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Events
1
 minutes
Online CNCF event: Why you should use NATS for your next Cloud native application

When building Cloud applications, we often put significant effort into breaking down our monoliths into small code pieces. They are easier to maintain but hard to make them communicate together. This is where NATS comes in. NATS is a simple and highly performant messaging system for Cloud-native apps. In this talk, I will share my experience using NATS at Qovery, why you should or should not use it, and the difference between the well-known RabbitMQ and Kafka.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
Product Update #37 - Deploy your apps on your AWS account ☁️

During the last 3 weeks, our team keep working to improve the Developer Experience of Qovery. Here are the latest product update👇

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
5
 minutes
I used Rust in production for 6 months! Here's my feedback

Are you in two minds when it comes to learning new programming languages? Probably you may feel the same when you first heard about the Rust programming language. Good things require some effort and here's what I have to say after using Rust programming language in production for a 6-month duration – It is great and Simply superb! Let's get the clear practical experience picture with Rust at Qovery.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
AWS
Business
12
 minutes
Heroku vs AWS: differences & what to choose in 2024?

Cloud hosting has become an indispensable component of IT infrastructure. In this article, we delve into the comparison between two prominent cloud service providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Heroku. We'll explore what each platform offers, their advantages and disadvantages, pricing, scaling capabilities, and developer experience, and ultimately, help you determine which is the right choice for your project needs. Whether you're aiming for simplicity and ease of use with Heroku or seeking flexibility and control with AWS, understanding the nuances of each platform will guide you in making an informed decision. Let's go!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
The Future of Qovery - Week #3

During the next eight weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
The Future of Qovery - Week #1

During the next ten weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
The Future of Qovery - Week #2

During the next nine weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
Product Update #36 - New app deployment flow 🔥

During the last 4 weeks, our team focused on improving the Developer Experience of Qovery. And here we are... We finally released our new app deployment flow. No more painful copy/paste .qovery.yml into your Git repository. In just a few clicks, you can deploy your apps with all the required services.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Kubernetes
6
 minutes
A guide for CTO: 8 questions to ask before using Kubernetes

Congratulations, you finally consider moving your apps to Kubernetes. It is a big day! Here is a checklist to ensure you did not forget anything essential to increase your chances of success using Kubernetes. We divided those points into three sections, from the most important to the least. Let’s go.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
Environment variables and Secrets - The Future of Qovery - Week #6

During the next five weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
The Future of Qovery - Week #4

During the next seven weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
4
 minutes
Seamless Cloud account management 🍃 - The Future of Qovery - Week #8

During the next two weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery's DevOps automation tool a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
The easiest way to deploy your database - The Future of Qovery - Week #7

During the next three weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
Register to the Qovery v2 beta now!

When we launched Qovery's DevOps automation tool in January 2020, our product was still a prototype, and we onboarded 53 developers to help them deploy their apps in the cloud. At the time, we were only 2 on the team, and our first employee (Patryk Jeziorowski) decided to join us after being one of our first users.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
Qovery goes beyond app deployment - The Future of Qovery - Week #5

During the next six weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery's DevOps automation software. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
3
 minutes
Product Update: What's New For September 2021

Last June, we released Qovery v2 - a brand new version of Qovery. Since then, we have worked on delivering the features you were waiting for AND made dozens of improvements based on your feedback. Thanks to our lovely dev community and customers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Scaleway
Product
1
 minutes
Deploy your apps on Scaleway with Qovery! Get early access now

TLDR; Deploy your apps on Scaleway - Qovery supports Scaleway cloud service provider!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
Environment variables and Secrets for Qovery v2 released

I am super excited to announce that we released the support of Environment Variables and Secrets. Watch the video to see those features in action.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
6
 minutes
Feedback - From Slack to Discord - 13 months later

This post is our third one sharing our real-world experience using Discord for more than one year. I think it is pretty interesting for any company interested to get the pros and cons of using Discord over Slack.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
What's new in Qovery for August 2021?

This month, we have many exciting announcements to make and features to demo like Codespaces with Qovery, deploy on AWS, organization settings, billing, member management, etc. You do not want to miss it!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
Cloud
1
 minutes
Code with Codespaces and deploy with Qovery

12 years ago, when I started to work as a Developer, I would not have bet that I will write software and manage infrastructure right from my browser one day. At the time, web IDE did not exist. And managing infrastructure from the browser was super early. Today, it is all possible, and the future looks bright!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
One week before the launch of Qovery v2 beta - What's new?

It has been 6 months since our engineering team started to work on what we decided to call Qovery v2. But what makes this next release so cool? Here are the top 4 features that make this release so appealing.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Techstars
Business
4
 minutes
How we help Techstars startups to succeed

TLDR; As a startup founder, you must focus on your business to increase your chance of success. Qovery provides a seamless experience to deploy your applications on your AWS or Digital Ocean account in 15 minutes and save 18 months on your product roadmap. Qovery is perfect for SaaS companies from 2 to 100+ engineers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
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5
 minutes
How to migrate your PostHog self-hosted to PostHog Cloud

PostHog is an open-source product analytics tool that we use at Qovery to improve the developer experience. PostHog is similar to famous proprietary product analytics tools like Mixpanel, Heap, Amplitude.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
4
 minutes
We are hiring talented developers

Qovery is a DevOps Automation tool that provides superpowers to any developer to deploy their applications in the Cloud in just a few seconds. Today, 7800+ developers in more than 120 countries use Qovery. 🔥🔥🔥

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
3
 minutes
Unexpected: How we ended up product of the day on Producthunt with zero preparation

How we end up product of the day with literally 0 preparation and no expectation. This is our story of a crazy day!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
Qovery v2 beta is out

Finally, after 7 months of hard work - the Qovery team is proud to announce that the Qovery v2 beta is out and available for everyone. Take a look at our Community Call to get a complete overview of this new release.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
Product
4
 minutes
Qovery - the ultimate AWS web console for SaaS startups

AWS is undoubtedly one of the best Cloud service providers to run serious business out there. Reliable and cost-effective. No doubt here. But something utterly wrong with AWS is the experience on their web management console. It is so bad that thousands of developers come using Qovery's DevOps automation tool every month with the only promise of - a better developer experience on top of AWS. Here are the 7 reasons why Qovery is an excellent choice for SaaS startups.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
Simple and powerful user management feature

It is a super exciting day! Finally, you can invite your friends/team/colleagues (pick one) via the web console.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
1
 minutes
I reveal how Qovery works under the hood

Transparency is essential when running production infrastructure. As we are onboarding more and more customers, we strive to make Qovery as open as possible and fully transparent on how it manages your applications.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Product
2
 minutes
Clone your production environment instantly

I am super excited to announce that we have released our "clone environment" feature. It is a massive update!! With one click, you can duplicate an existing environment. The cloning environment has been a significant feature expected by our customers and users for a long time. Thanks to our beta testers and our team for making it live for everyone.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Business
AWS
3
 minutes
How to reduce your AWS bill up to 60%

Let’s face it. Once you have consumed your free credit, AWS costs an arm and a leg. This is the price to pay for high-quality services. But how can you reduce your costs without sacrificing quality? This post will show you how to reduce your bill by up to 60% by combining four built-in features in Qovery.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Heroku
AWS
4
 minutes
Heroku vs AWS: What is the cheapest for your startup in 2023?

In today's digital age, the internet and computer technologies have become a part of our lives. Organizations are moving their applications to the cloud to gain the benefits of flexibility and lower costs. Heroku and AWS are two popular cloud service providers.

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
Qovery
Business
5
 minutes
Qovery raises $4m to build the future of the Cloud

I am thrilled to announce that we have raised a $4M seed round with top-notch investors. Join us in building the future of the Cloud - we are hiring!

Romaric Philogène
CEO & Co-founder
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