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

VMware used to be the boringx part of your infrastructure. It just worked. But since Broadcom took over in late 2023, things have changed — fast and not for the better. Pricing is up. Product lines have been slashed.

12th 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 reading this, you've probably started hitting Netlify's limits and you're exploring alternatives that can better handle your app deployments.

19th April 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

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.

10th March 2025 • Will Stewart

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