Will Stewart

Learn how to self-host AI models, choose GPUs and runtimes, secure inference endpoints, and compare deployment costs with a step-by-step guide.

16th October 2026 • Will Stewart

Compare 8 best PaaS providers in 2026, including Northflank, Heroku, Render, Railway, and Azure App Service, by deployment features, pricing, and use case.

15th October 2026 • Will Stewart

Compare 7 Netlify alternatives: Northflank, Vercel, Render, Google Cloud Run, Cloudflare, Heroku, and DigitalOcean App Platform. Pricing and use cases.

8th October 2026 • Will Stewart

Global PaaS platforms with multi-region deployments = a cloud platform that runs applications across multiple geographic locations simultaneously.

16th September 2026 • Will Stewart

Learn how to monitor and debug AI-agent sandboxes using correlated traces, logs, metrics, alerts, safe reproduction, and production containment.

14th September 2026 • Will Stewart

Compare on-demand vs reserved GPUs for AI workloads by cost, utilization, availability, and flexibility, with guidance for training and inference.

4th September 2026 • Will Stewart

Learn how to replace a DIY internal developer platform while protecting software delivery through phased migration, rollback planning, and enterprise controls.

1st September 2026 • Will Stewart

Learn how to govern AI-agent code execution with risk tiers, policy checks, isolated runtimes, scoped access, evidence, and containment.

24th August 2026 • Will Stewart

For the last decade, the internal developer platform was designed around a relatively stable assumption: software is written by engineers, in quantities that humans can reasonably review, deploy and operate.

14th August 2026 • Will Stewart

Best E2B alternatives in 2026: compare Northflank, Daytona, Vercel Sandbox, and Modal for AI agent code execution, persistence, isolation, and cloud deployment.

23rd July 2026 • Will Stewart

Best Daytona alternatives in 2026: compare Northflank, E2B, Modal, Vercel Sandbox, and Cloudflare Workers for AI code execution, isolation, and persistence.

11th June 2026 • Will Stewart

Best VMware alternatives in 2026: Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and OpenStack compared, plus how Northflank helps teams move to container-based infrastructure.

27th April 2026 • Will Stewart

Cloudflare Containers is a new edge compute service that lets you run Docker containers on Cloudflare’s global network.

25th February 2026 • Will Stewart

Deploy OpenClaw (Clawdbot), an open source AI automation and chatbot platform, on Northflank in minutes. Use the stack template to run a self hosted assistant with chat integrations, persistence, and zero server management.

26th January 2026 • Will Stewart

With Webapp.io shutting down, Northflank is the top alternative offering robust CI/CD, automated testing, instant preview environments, Docker caching, managed infrastructure, and BYOC flexibility.

7th January 2026 • Will Stewart

They switched from custom Firecracker microVMs on AWS and used Northflank's microVM platform with per-second billing and API-driven provisioning.

28th October 2025 • Will Stewart

AWS outage today brings down half the Internet

19th October 2025 • Will Stewart

Staging environments are production-like replicas where you test applications before going live. They catch integration bugs, validate performance, and enable stakeholder sign-off without affecting real users.

25th September 2025 • Will Stewart

Hybrid cloud mixes public cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) with private cloud and on-premises servers.

6th September 2025 • Will Stewart

When you’re building AI agents that generate and execute code, you need secure sandbox environments that can isolate untrusted code without compromising your infrastructure.

25th August 2025 • Will Stewart

This guide shows you how to deploy and self-host DeepSeek-V3.1 on Northflank using our one-click template or by setting it up manually.

21st August 2025 • Will Stewart

AWS SageMaker is a comprehensive machine learning platform that simplifies building, training, and deploying ML models.

19th August 2025 • Will Stewart

Multi-cloud management platforms help companies deploy, monitor, and scale applications across multiple cloud providers from a single interface.

19th August 2025 • Will Stewart

Many teams want to run n8n self-hosted instead of relying on the cloud version.

19th August 2025 • Will Stewart

Bitnami is moving most container images to a legacy repository on August 28th, 2025, and stopping updates. If you're using Bitnami images or Bitnami helm charts, your deployments will break when they try to pull images that no longer exist.

18th August 2025 • Will Stewart

Cloudflare Workers runs lightweight, serverless code at the edge, but it has strict limits on memory, execution time, and runtime flexibility.

17th August 2025 • Will Stewart

A comprehensive review of Claude Code vs Cursor

13th August 2025 • Will Stewart

If you're searching for "cloud to on-premise migration," you're probably looking at your AWS bill in horror.

10th August 2025 • Will Stewart

When searching for "Azure migration" or exploring cloud migration options, you're likely facing one of two distinct scenarios.

10th August 2025 • Will Stewart

If you're searching for "on-premise to cloud migration," you're probably tired of managing servers in a data center.

10th August 2025 • Will Stewart

OpenAI just released GPT-OSS, its first fully open-source large language model family under an Apache 2.0 license.

5th August 2025 • Will Stewart

When searching for "Google Cloud migration" or exploring cloud migration options, you're likely facing one of two distinct scenarios.

4th August 2025 • Will Stewart

When searching for "AWS migrate" or exploring cloud migration options, you're likely facing one of two distinct scenarios.

4th August 2025 • Will Stewart

Claude Code is powerful, but closed models come with two constraints: rate limits and cost ceilings.

31st July 2025 • Will Stewart

If you're building AI agents, code interpreters, or platforms that execute untrusted code, Modal Sandboxes might be on your radar.

30th July 2025 • Will Stewart

When you're building platforms that execute code from AI models or users, security is everything and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

29th July 2025 • Will Stewart

Whether you're looking to migrate Heroku applications due to pricing changes, seeking better performance, or need more flexibility, this guide covers everything you need to successfully migrate from Heroku to Northflank.

27th July 2025 • Will Stewart

This guide shows you exactly how to select, deploy, and scale open source LLMs for production use.

16th July 2025 • Will Stewart

Let’s be clear upfront: Fal.ai is excellent at what it’s built for, but in case you might be looking for an alternative, we've got you covered.

15th July 2025 • Will Stewart

Code generation tools are reshaping how developers build software. Instead of writing every line by hand, engineers now use systems that generate code automatically.

10th July 2025 • Will Stewart

Spin up microVMs in seconds with Northflank using secure runtimes like Kata Containers, gVisor, Firecracker, and Cloud Hypervisor (clh). Achieve fast, isolated container deployments ideal for multi-tenancy, untrusted code, and production workloads.

10th July 2025 • Will Stewart

AI workloads are everywhere: fine-tuning LLMs, serving embedding models, running inference pipelines.

20th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Ditch Heroku's outages and limits. Northflank offers better uptime, BYOC, autoscaling, CI/CD, and dev experience—built on Kubernetes, perfect for startups and enterprises.

20th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Northflank is the best CapRover alternative for teams needing a modern, production-ready deployment platform that goes beyond Docker and NGINX.

20th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Disaster recovery (DR) software helps teams restore systems, data, and services after an outage. This includes things like cloud region failures, database corruption, human error, or ransomware.

20th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Earlier this month we hosted our first in-person event in San Francisco. We teamed up with Kindred Ventures and brought together a group of engineers and founders to talk about what it means to build software that lasts.

18th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Kubernetes autoscaling automatically adjusts compute resources to match application demand. This guide covers everything from basic concepts to advanced patterns, with practical examples for implementing autoscaling in production environments.

16th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Northflank is the best Kapstan alternative for teams needing production-grade Kubernetes without YAML complexity.

11th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Deploying a machine learning model is the last, and hardest, step in the ML lifecycle. You’ve trained your model, tuned your hyperparameters, and now it’s time to move from experimentation to production.

11th June 2025 • Will Stewart

PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Meta’s AI Research lab (FAIR). Since its release in 2016, it’s become a cornerstone of deep learning research and production-grade AI systems.

9th June 2025 • Will Stewart

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that eliminates the need to provision and manage servers. But like most AWS products, its simplicity is skin-deep.

9th June 2025 • Will Stewart

PyTorch is the toolkit you’ll use to actually build and train your models, but knowing how to install PyTorch correctly is the first step to getting anything working.

8th June 2025 • Will Stewart

Kubernetes has won. It's the default control plane for container orchestration. But that doesn’t mean it’s usable out of the box, especially not for fast-moving teams who need scale, security, and a platform developers can actually understand.

4th June 2025 • Will Stewart

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a self-service layer that abstracts away the complexities of infrastructure so that developers can deploy code without touching Kubernetes manifests, Terraform modules, or CI/CD pipelines.

27th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Securely run untrusted AI-generated code and agents using Kubernetes-native microVMs and gVisor—prevent container escapes, protect API keys, and isolate runtime environments with Northflank.

26th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Release management is the process of planning, scheduling, coordinating, and deploying software releases. It covers everything from preparing builds to rolling them out into production. The goal is simple: ship new code fast, without breaking things.

25th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Knative is a Kubernetes-based framework for building serverless platforms. It gives platform engineers the core primitives to deploy and scale HTTP workloads, respond to events, and build serverless pipelines.

24th May 2025 • Will Stewart

If you’re searching for alternatives to Fireworks AI, chances are you’re not just chasing lower latency.

21st May 2025 • Will Stewart

Northflank is hosting a get-together for technical leaders who care about building software that holds up at scale, under pressure, and over time.

20th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Coolify is an open-source platform that lets you deploy apps on your own infrastructure – essentially a DIY alternative to Heroku, Netlify, or Vercel.

19th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Cedana is building live migration and snapshot/restore infrastructure for GPU-heavy workloads, with applications ranging from resilient cloud infrastructure to on-prem clusters plagued by high GPU failure rates.

15th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Helm has long been the go-to tool for managing Kubernetes applications, often described as the “package manager” for Kubernetes.

13th May 2025 • Will Stewart

Comparing Kubernetes to OpenShift is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, or maybe more accurately, apples to an entire fruit salad.

1st May 2025 • Will Stewart

If you're shipping a static site or building your first Next.js app, Netlify and Vercel both do the job well. They give you fast deploys, simple Git integrations, and zero infrastructure overhead.

18th April 2025 • Will Stewart

Back in September 2024, I joined Chris Ward on the Tech Lounge podcast at Civo Navigate Berlin to talk about how Northflank is building the next generation of developer infrastructure.

17th April 2025 • Will Stewart

Ultralight is an early-stage company building software that helps medical device companies navigate FDA approvals.They started on AWS ECS, but deployments were slow, debugging was painful, and compliance was a nightmare.

15th April 2025 • Will Stewart

Congratulations—you’ve either built a platform or you’re deep into the process of creating one. But here’s the uncomfortable reality: many engineering teams conflate “building the platform” with the ultimate goal.

8th April 2025 • Will Stewart, Chase Roberts

When we started running into issues with Next.js, we did what any sane team would do: we tried to fix them. Then we tried again. Then we realized the problem was Next.js itself. So we pulled the plug.

20th February 2025 • Will Stewart, Tom Snelling

Deploy DeepSeek R1 on spot-priced GPUs in your own cloud for cost-effective, private, production-ready AI. Enjoy fast setup with Northflank BYOC and flexible cloud options.

17th February 2025 • Will Stewart, Daniel Cosby

With 9 clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure, 40+ microservices, 250+ concurrent GPUs, and 10,000+ AI training jobs per day, Weights operates at scale—and does it so seamlessly that most Series B+ startups wish they could be them.

6th February 2025 • Will Stewart

Discover how Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) empowers enterprises to maintain security, reduce costs, and gain operational consistency by deploying software within their own cloud environments. Learn more

23rd January 2025 • Will Stewart

Discover how Northflank's PaaS transformed Clock’s infrastructure with rapid container deployment, seamless scaling, transparent costs, and empowered developers. Learn more.

17th January 2025 • Will Stewart

Understand dev, QA, preview, test, staging, and production environments in the software development lifecycle. Learn their roles for successful deployments.

4th January 2025 • Will Stewart

Northflank had an action-packed year, enhancing Kubernetes for 35k+ developers, shipping 2,000+ updates, expanding globally with BYOC, tripling revenue, and supporting 1M deployments monthly.

22nd December 2024 • Will Stewart

Frustrated by Argo CD’s complexity? Try simpler Kubernetes/GitOps alternatives. Northflank offers integrated abstractions, less YAML, smoother workflows—focus on features!

19th December 2024 • Will Stewart

While Kubernetes has become the cloud's OS, it remains complex for developers. The industry seeks a platform that bridges ops and dev needs - automating deployment while maintaining flexibility. Is a "Rails moment" for K8s possible?

19th November 2024 • Will Stewart

Northflank raises $22M to make Kubernetes work for your developers – ship workloads, not infrastructure

11th November 2024 • Will Stewart

Northflank's co-founder and CEO discusses application delivery and IDP (internal Developer Platforms) in Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments. Developers are clamouring for self-service, and leadership is looking for a golden path to production.

27th May 2024 • Will Stewart

Watch and join Will Stewart (Co-Founder & CEO at Northflank) and Dinesh Majrekar (CTO at Civo) as they explore platform engineering and how to build robust, scalable platforms using Northflank on Civo's cloud infrastructure.

31st January 2024 • Will Stewart

We’re excited to announce that Northflank has joined the Cloud Native Computing and Linux Foundation as a silver member!

24th October 2023 • Will Stewart, Emma Genesen

Deploy a Nx workspace monorepo on Northflank with Docker

4th August 2022 • Will Stewart

1Password is a password manager and digital vault. They now offer the ability to secure and manage your company’s infrastructure secrets with 1Password Secrets Automation. In this guide, we show you how to deploy a 1Password Connect server on Northflank.

2nd June 2022 • Will Stewart

How to deploy Dragonfly. Dragonfly is a high performance alternative to Redis and Memcached. Quickly deploy a Dragonfly container using a pre-built Docker image on Northflank.

30th May 2022 • Will Stewart

Heroku was a great developer platform. Times have moved on, what is next? Migrating away from Heroku is now a priority for many. We dive into the reasons why and what are your options.

12th May 2022 • Will Stewart

Northflank joins the fray, announcing the fullstack cloud platform and a $2.6m seed round of financing.

7th July 2020 • Will Stewart, Frederik Brix