Blog posts tagged “Development”

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.

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

You’ve built a platform, are currently building one, or recently re-platformed.

In this blog, we’ll discuss the nuances of the monolith vs. microservices debate, and dig into how we at Northflank applied these principles to the software architecture for our developer platform.