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Deborah Emeni
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
Will Stewart • 18th June 2025

Heroku outages are getting worse. The best alternative in 2025 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
Will Stewart
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
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
Deborah Emeni • 11th March 2025

10 best DigitalOcean alternatives in 2025 for developers and teams

Looking for a DigitalOcean alternative? Check out 10 top alternatives in 2025 with key comparisons, pricing insights, and unique features to find the right fit for your needs.
Kubernetes
Development
DevOps Engineering
Daniel Adeboye
Daniel Adeboye • 25th February 2025

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
Daniel Adeboye • 18th February 2025

Top Heroku alternatives in 2025

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
Daniel Adeboye • 11th February 2025

Top Cloud Foundry alternatives in 2025

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
Paul Burt
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.
Development
Kubernetes
Paul Burt
Paul Burt • 3rd January 2025

Case Study: How Catalog Built a Scalable Streaming Music Platform with Northflank

The challenge? Building a highly flexible, developer-friendly backend that could support complex workloads. Their services relied on CPU-intensive transcoding, high-bandwidth streaming (HLS), and multi-node read-write (RWX) volumes.
Development
Case Study

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