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flybayer··on Ask HN: Help choosing between AWS ECS and EKS
Agreed with the others. Also, shameless plug, you might like Ravion[1] for more quickly setting up your AWS infra and more easily monitoring and maintaining it over time.

[1] https://www.ravion.com

flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
Good suggestion, our company page is updated to include the founders
flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
RDS has been default private for probably 6 months or longer.

> Would be better if it was IaC but with pre built "blocks" app, cache, etc, which you could easily customize

We are working on a major new product version that does exactly this ;)

flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
Stay tuned, we’re working on the next version of Flightcontrol which is in this direction.
flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
No, but we support cost budget alerts.
flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
When did you try it?
flybayer··on Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account
There is no service limit on the free plan. It’s limited to a single user instead.
flybayer··on Ask HN: If not Kubernetes, what do you use to run your apps?
ECS is great and simpler than k8s. Flightcontrol[1] is an easy way to spin up and deploy to ECS clusters. (I'm a cofounder)

[1] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

flybayer··on Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?
You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which makes it easy to deploy servers or Lambdas. (I'm cofounder)
flybayer··on Ask HN: Help with NextJS deployment architecture on AWS
Hi, you might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which fully automates production infra in your AWS. So you get to use your AWS credits, and you can even pay Flightcontrol with your credits, so it'll be 100% free.

Flightcontrol is very popular for Next.js deployments on AWS

*I'm cofounder of Flightcontrol

flybayer··on Ask HN: The easiest and most hassle-free way to host front end and back end?
https://www.flightcontrol.dev/
flybayer··on Ask HN: Those of you who don't use AWS/Azure/GCP, what do you use for hosting?
The problem with typical PaaS is significantly less reliability, higher costs, and limited flexibility than AWS for example.

But of course AWS is a nightmare on it's own.

So you might like Flightcontrol [1] which provides a PaaS user experience on your own AWS, thereby giving you the best of both worlds.

[1] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

flybayer··on Trying to find reviews about Porter.run, have you used it?
This isn't answering your question, but you might also want to consider https://www.flightcontrol.dev. Here's a comparison with Porter: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/porter-alternatives
flybayer··on Ask HN: Series A/B startups, what's your infra setup?
Fargate does not have cold starts like Lambda. There is always a container running, it does not scale to zero.
flybayer··on Ask HN: Series A/B startups, what's your infra setup?
Another option you might like is Flightcontrol[0]. It's similar to Porter, but newer and aims to make all the best AWS services as easy as PaaS. And unlike Porter, it doesn't charge more for horizontal and vertical scaling.

Today, the server deployments use Fargate, and are truly hands off just like PaaS. Soon we're launching ECS+EC2 support which will let you customize the EC2 instance type, use GPUs, and leverage reserved instances. ECS doesn't offer some advanced k8s features, but it's 80% or more of the benefit in an easier to use, cheaper package.

We commonly see Series A & B companies migrating off PaaS to Flightcontrol + AWS because they can keep the same workflows while gaining more reliability, control, and flexibility.

I'm cofounder, CEO. Let me know if you have any questions.

[0] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

flybayer··on PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
Good to know, I fully support it!
flybayer··on PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
I'm curious if this was after a failed funding attempt. I think we're going to see a lot more VC backed companies prioritizing profitability.

I think startups should use seed rounds to become profitable. It's the only way to secure your future. You can be profitable and grow fast. See Notion and Linear.

flybayer··on Ask HN: Those of you who don't use K8s, what are you using for deployment?
We use https://www.flightcontrol.dev to deploy to AWS Fargate with auto deploys, multiple environments etc (I’m cofounder of Flightcontrol)
flybayer··on Ask HN: What is your go-to PaaS these days?
AWS via https://www.flightcontrol.dev/
flybayer··on Ask HN: Heroku like platform built on top of Azure/AWS
https://www.flightcontrol.dev is one that’s built on AWS
flybayer··on Ask HN: Heroku Alternative for 2023?
thanks for the feedback! All new website and product UI launching in a couple weeks, hopefully it will be more clear :D

But the overall, Flightcontrol works very similar to Heroku except it deploys to your own AWS account

flybayer··on Ask HN: Heroku Alternative for 2023?
https://www.flightcontrol.dev (I’m a cofounder)
flybayer··on Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App
https://www.flightcontrol.dev, easy deployment to AWS (I'm cofounder)

https://www.flightcontrol.dev/docs/getting-started/python

flybayer··on Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps
Depends on what parts of PaaS you like or not, but you might like https://www.Flightcontrol.dev which streamlines Fargate deployments. Also static sites, preview environments, etc. (I’m Flightcontrol cofounder/CEO)
flybayer··on Ask HN: What's the fastest platform for deploying code with CI/CD?
You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev, although you'd still want to set up GitHub actions for running the tests before deploy
flybayer··on 11 years of hosting a SaaS
https://Flightcontrol.dev is a relatively new one that provides a PaaS-like experience on your own AWS account

*I'm cofounder & CEO

flybayer··on Heroku is down and they didn't know it for 90 minutes
https://Flightcontrol.dev
flybayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Flightcontrol | Developer Advocate | REMOTE (overlap 10a-12p EST) | Full-time

Flightcontrol provides the deployment experience of a Platform-as-a-Service but without the limitations, since it uses your own AWS account.

We're a 5 person YC startup cofounded by the creator of Blitz.js. We’re intentionally building the most life-giving and fulfilling company possible.

Looking for our first devrel. Your high level goal is to grow “top of funnel” traffic through awareness and education, with written content as the foundation.

Full description: https://jobs.flightcontrol.dev/developer-advocate

flybayer··on Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
Blitz actually came first, so trpc is an alternative implementation of RPC.

Blitz auth was developed at the same time as next auth, and takes a more imperative approach which allows you to build more custom auth flows.

flybayer··on Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
Unless I'm missing something, Blitz RPC add's zero TS overhead. So the limitation will be the total amount of TS code you have which is not related to Blitz.
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