Northflank Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• The 2024 Web Hosting Report

  Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium! - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Northflank — Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. The free tier includes two services, two cron jobs and 1 database. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Is it still worth choosing Heroku in 2023?

  Alternatives explored: * northflank: While running the wrk test, requests were taking 3-7 seconds. Couldn't repeat Heroku's phenomenon of "400ms-800ms" during such a load test. * fly.io: Reliability: It’s Not Great * render.com: I remember the time when indiehackers.com was down because of an outage on Render, not sure if it's worth trusting. Source: 5 months ago

• Recommendation after Heroko

  I've used Northflank, their plans are also pretty generous. They don't have Django framework support though if I recall correctly, but you can easily set something up yourself using Docker. Source: 10 months ago

• Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io

  I'm a co-founder at Northflank. This is what we've spent 3+ years building. https://northflank.com. I am sympathetic with much of Kurt's post. We spent a long time building solutions to several of the areas highlighted (managed PG, persistent volumes, secret management and service discovery). Making radical changes to architecture on a live cloud platform is always a challenge. On the front-end Northflank is a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Problems with Heroku/Nightscout

  If you followed the various guides, your data is in a MongoDB hosted in Atlas. The only thing that's deprecated is the free Heroku hosting Nightscout. You can host Nightscout in the various other services that do this, such as fly.io or northflank.com. Personally, I use Northflank because I use Libre sensors and that requires an extra service to make it work, which Northflank allows. Source: over 1 year ago

• Node-Based UIs

  I have recently implemented a fairly complex workflow editor [1] at Northflank (https://northflank.com) using react-flow and elkjs. They make for a very powerful and flexible combination, great for our needs. [1] https://i.imgur.com/gENveM4.png. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• free-for.dev

  Northflank — Build and deploy microservices, jobs and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. Free tier includes 2 services, 2 cron jobs and 1 database. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Heroku alternatives with a free tier listed in a GitHub repo

  One more, my personal favorite. https://northflank.com/ - The comprehensive developer platform to build and scale microservices, jobs and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

  I have moved a Rails and Go app to https://northflank.com. I have my Rails app running in their free project (limited to two services and 2 jobs) and my Go app in a paid project. I find the pricing to be very reasonable and considerably cheaper than Heroku. I was looking for somewhere I could run web services and cron jobs both in the same place. They have a Heroku importer, however I think you need to ask to have... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

  Metabase for insights into trends https://northflank.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Heroku's Next Chapter

  I agree that the Heroku developer experience has been second to none. I'm a front-end & DX engineer at Northflank and we're working hard to evolve and create a next-gen iteration of the Heroku experience anchored around 12 Factor Applications in a Kubernetes/cloud native era. We're getting very close, come and see for yourself: https://northflank.com. Some key features: * As simple as `git push` to build & deploy... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Heroku's Next Chapter

  The public roadmap is a good idea but highlights how stale the product has become. https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues Only now researching adding Cloud Native Build Packs and HTTP2. This will reaffirm for many the sense that Heroku is being dismantled from within. Feature sunsetting and removal of a free on-ramp doesn't help. If you're looking for a production alternative to Heroku checkout Northflank.... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Which SaaS backend solutions do you use?

  There have been new entrants into that space and they might be worth taking a look. Specifically, Fly.io, render and Northflank. I haven't used them personally, though, so can't tell you more. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation

  There is a lot to agree on in this article. Though teams should be able to choose whatever stack (languages, frameworks, databases, queues) they want. What’s important is there is a coherent way to deploy, build, operate, scale, observe these services, without relying on one or two team members. Getting a cluster setup and a few deployments is pretty simple, however scaling that cluster, setting up secure runtime... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago