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Will Stewart, Tom Snelling • 20th February 2025

Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back

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.

Deborah Emeni • 18th February 2025

Docker Build and Buildx best practices for optimized builds

Learn Docker Build and Buildx best practices, including multi-stage builds, caching, and optimizing Dockerfiles for better performance.

Daniel Adeboye • 18th February 2025

Top Heroku alternatives

Heroku's free tier is gone—discover top Heroku alternatives like Northflank, Render, and Fly.io with better pricing, scalability, and features. Find the best cloud platform for your apps in this guide!

Internal Developer Platform

Will Stewart, Daniel Cosby • 17th February 2025

Self-host Deepseek R1 on AWS, GCP, Azure & K8s in Three Easy Steps

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.

Daniel Adeboye • 11th February 2025

The Cloud Foundry journey: why teams are looking elsewhere

Cloud Foundry, once a pioneering platform, now faces competition from Kubernetes and modern tools. Rising costs, complexity, and cloud-native evolution push organizations to explore top Cloud Foundry alternatives like Northflank.

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Will Stewart • 6th February 2025

Weights uses Northflank to scale to millions of users without a DevOps team

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.

Daniel Adeboye • 29th January 2025

ECS (Elastic Container Service): deep dive and alternatives

Deep dive into Amazon ECS: explore its benefits, limitations, and top container orchestration alternatives. Discover why teams switch to platforms like Northflank for scalable, flexible deployments.

Will Stewart • 23rd January 2025

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): What is it and why it's the future of deployment

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

Will Stewart • 17th January 2025

Scaling 30,000 deployments with 100% uptime. How Clock uses Northflank to simplify infrastructure.

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

Paul Burt • 14th January 2025

The what and why of ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes

This post is an overview of preview environments. It covers why they’re crucial for modern development teams, what makes them challenging to implement (particularly for backend and full-stack apps), and how Northflank simplifies the entire process.