Our Blog

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

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

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

TLDR; Pleco is a service that automatically removes Cloud managed services and Kubernetes resources based on tags with TTL. When using cloud provider services, whether using UI or Terraform, you usually have to create many resources (users, VPCs, virtual machines, clusters, etc...) to host and expose an application to the outside world. When using Terraform, sometimes, the deployment will not go as planned. Terraform will create some resources, and others will not if it fails for any reason during the process. But what to do with those dangling resources? Delete them by hand? Too long and laborious. Manage the Terraform crash, its tfstate, and the probable state lock? Certainly not; what a pain! That's why at Qovery, we created Pleco. Pleco is a program that checks that the resources present are useful at regular intervals - reducing cloud cost and increasing engineering team efficiency.

Enzo Radnaï

Software Engineer

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

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

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