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Daniel Adeboye • 5th January 2026
PostgreSQL vector search guide: Everything you need to know about pgvector
pgvector enables vector search in PostgreSQL, allowing semantic search, AI recommendations, and similarity queries without extra infrastructure. Learn how to deploy and use it on Northflank to enhance your database capabilities.
Databases
SQL
PostgreSQL
Development
Daniel Adeboye • 3rd January 2026
Top Heroku alternatives in 2026
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!
Kubernetes
Apps
Development
Internal Developer Platform
Daniel Adeboye • 2nd January 2026
Top Cloud Foundry alternatives in 2026
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.
Apps
Development
Workload Delivery
Internal Developer Platform
Deborah Emeni • 27th August 2025
10 best cloud app deployment platforms for development teams in 2026
Compare 10 best cloud app deployment platforms for 2026. Features, pricing, and use cases for Northflank, Heroku, AWS App Runner, Vercel, and more.
CI/CD Tools
Development
DevOps Engineering
AI
Deborah Emeni • 26th August 2025
DigitalOcean vs AWS: A guide for developers, startups, and AI companies
Compare DigitalOcean vs AWS for pricing, features, and AI. Learn which cloud suits developers, startups, and AI teams, and how Northflank helps.
AI
DevOps Engineering
Development
Will Stewart • 20th June 2025
Heroku outages are getting worse. The best alternative in 2026 with no downtime.
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.
Workload Delivery
Development
Deborah Emeni • 20th June 2025
Can you use Vercel for backend? What works and when to use something else
Vercel can host backend functions, but there are limits. This guide breaks down what Vercel supports, what it doesn't, and when platforms like Northflank are a better fit for backend workflows.
Kubernetes
CI/CD for Kubernetes
Development
Will Stewart • 11th June 2025
How to deploy machine learning models: Step-by-step guide to ML model deployment in production
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.
AI
Development
Docker
Will Stewart • 27th May 2025
How to build an Internal Developer Platform (and why you might not want to)
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.
Internal Developer Platform
Development
DevOps Engineering
Deborah Emeni • 11th March 2025
10 best DigitalOcean alternatives in 2026 for developers and teams
Looking for a DigitalOcean alternative? Check out 10 top alternatives in 2026 with key comparisons, pricing insights, and unique features to find the right fit for your needs.
Kubernetes
Development
DevOps Engineering