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We are back for Koyeb's second launch week! Get the replay on all our exciting announcements here.

Discover how Beavr scaled their SaaS platform globally with Koyeb and why they chose Koyeb infrastructure over Vercel for scalability, autoscaling, and enhanced developer experience.

Startups build on Koyeb to bring their ideas to market faster and scale with ease. Apply for the Koyeb Startup Program today to power your applications with the best infrastructure for your business.

Today, we are releasing the AWS ecosystem and regions on Koyeb for businesses. The fastest way to deploy and scale your apps on AWS infrastructure.

Today, we are launching the technical preview of Volumes! If you are building applications that need persistent storage, you can now use Volumes to keep data on disk and intact between deployments, restarts, and even when services are paused.

Today, we are announcing the public preview of our Serverless GPUs. Perfect for inference, fine-tuning, and all your AI workloads, our Serverless GPUs offer blazing-fast deployments and exceptional performance for your GPU-backed workloads.

Today, we are announcing autoscaling in GA! Get dynamic, flexible, and responsive resource allocations for production. Automatically scale your AI and full stack applications.

We are throwing Koyeb's very first launch week! Catch up on all our exciting announcements here!

Looking to boost the performance of your AI workloads using LLMs in productions? Explore the best inference engines and servers like vLLM, RayLLM with RayServe, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace Text Generation Inference, and more to see which one you should be using when performing inference.

Our fourth edition of tips and tricks introduces Live Share, the helpful collaboration tool for Visual Studio Code.

Wonder how we added the ability to automatically scale Services running on our platform? Learn about the engineering behind autoscaling Instances on a global and serverless platform.

Our third edition of tips and tricks takes a closer look at CPU utilization. High CPU activity does not necessarily mean your process is performing complex tasks.

Today, we're excited to share that GPU Instances designed to support AI inference workloads are available in private preview. These GPUs provide up to 48GB of vRAM, 733 TFLOPS and 900GB/s of memory bandwidth to support large models including LLMs and text-to-image models.

Our second edition of tips and tricks covers template databases in PostgreSQL. Using template databases can be a quick and easy way to backup and restore databases during development.

Trying to keep up with AI and all the buzzwords surrounding it? Learn some essential AI terminology like parameters, weights, tokens, quantization, sparsity and more with our intro to LLMs.

Our first ever tips and tricks covers Drizzle, the lightweight ORM for TypeScript. The goal of this example is to demonstrate it is possible to have a typesafe ORM, and write queries in the best language that exists to query relational data: SQL!

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know Paweł, software engineer building the Koyeb serverless platform.

Learn how toddl.co reduced its build and deployment times, automated manual proccesses, and regained time to focus on its business.

Last Thursday night, we co-organized a Local and Open Source AI developer meetup with Ollama and Dagger at Station F. Over 450 developers attended, both from the local and international scene.

KubeCon EU 2024 is upon us! We are gearing up for a week full of cloud native and open source fun! Check out our handcrafted list of this week's awesome events.

Learn all about RAG, the AI framework addressing major LLM limitations by supplementing an LLM's knowledge source with external resources. Discover the benefits of RAG, its origins and ideal use cases, how to implement it and deploy RAG-powered AI applications on Koyeb.

Autoscaling is available in public preview to all users starting today. Easily handle unpredictable spikes and varying workloads to respond to demand dynamically.

We are thrilled to announce that our Singapore location is generally available to deploy your full stack applications, low-latency AI workloads, APIs, and databases.

Discover how FoxSell optimized time, cost, and performance with Koyeb's innovative cloud solutions. From streamlined global deployments to exceptional performance on bare metal machines, explore their journey to efficiency in e-commerce.

Discover how the University of British Columbia Housing Assessment Resource Tools (UBC HART) leverages Koyeb for rapid deployments of the housing assessment resource tools they are developing in the face of Canada's housing crisis.

Our team is growing! Get to know David, Koyeb's first Product Manager, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

Our team is growing! Get to know Leo, Koyeb's newest Software Engineer, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

Top PostgreSQL providers with free hosting solutions. Discover free options ideal for building side projects and MVPs.

Kong leverages Koyeb for rapid global deployments to highlight its API lifecycle management platform.

We’re introducing Small, Medium, and Large PostgreSQL databases with up to 4GB of RAM in private preview.

Discover how Qwigo leverages global serverless deployments on Koyeb to deploy their CPU-intensive services across the US and Europe.

Using a managed database saves time and every when building applications that need persistent storage. While there are numerous benefits to using a managed database, there are serious and long-term considerations to have before choosing one for your app. Our analysis aims to equip you with insights that will help when selecting a managed database for your next project.

Today, deploying globally is becoming more accessible with a new type of instance called Eco starting at $1.61 per month ($0.0000006 per second) and more resources for free.

Serverless Postgres is in public preview: fully-managed, fault-tolerant, and scalable serverless Postgres Database Service available directly inside of Koyeb.

We're excited to announce our $7M seed round led by Serena with the participation of ISAI, Samsung Next, MongoDB, and incredible angels. In this post, we dive into our mission, why we are uniquely positionned and what's next.

Today, we reaffirm our commitment to maintaining a free tier. We explain how we intend to sustain it and why we are so committed to providing one. We provide a free tier so users can explore the platform and deploy a hobby project before deploying a production-grade application. This is a story about bare metal, abuse, credit cards, and scale-to-zero.

Deep dive into how we built a global serverless engine with Nomad, Kuma/Envoy and Golang to make multi-region deployments easy.

Deploy Node.js, Go, Python, Java, and anything with a Dockerfile in 6 regions across 3 continents on high-performance microVMs.

With Koyeb Metrics, you get a high-level overview of what is happening in your services running on Koyeb. Discover how you can use Koyeb Metrics to understand your services and diagnose performance issues.

Build from Dockerfile is supported on Koyeb. Discover why you would want to use cache during your builds and what happens behind the scenes when you do.

Today, we are excited to announce the support of Dockerfile based deployments in general availability. Building and deploying using Dockerfiles offer more flexibility and control over the build process of your applications to let you deploy any kind of applications, frameworks, and runtimes.

Today, we are thrilled to announce workers are generally available on Koyeb! You can now easily deploy workers to process any background jobs with high-end performance in all of our locations.

Take a journey into Leonardo's inferno and learn how to inspect TLS encrypted traffic using Wireshark and mitmproxy.

The latest version of the Koyeb CLI is available and brings many helpful improvements! Discover the reworked error messages, smoother flow for creating and updating services, and how we improved the foundations of our CLI to continue to building the developer experience we envision.

We recently added HTTP/2 and gRPC support to the platform. We are currently using Cloudflare to serve public traffic. This blog post explains the different steps we had to go through to add the support of gRPC and HTTP/2 on the platform.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know Justin, our technical writer and driving-force behind our documentation and technical guides.

Exciting news: We have a new teammate! Get to know Sebastian, our Customer Success Engineer helping Koyeb users deploy successfully!

Want to learn more about microVMs? Learn all about this lightweight virtualization technology and get all of your microVM questions answered with this short and sweet primer.

Get to know our new team member, Kamil! He is our product designer helping us build an optimal developer experience and make our vision for serverless a reality.

Learn all about gRPC, a high-performance remote procedure call framework, and how it improves communication between services. Discover the benefits of using gRPC, its use cases, how to implement it in various programming languages and deploy gRPC applications on Koyeb.

We have a new team member! Get to know Julia, our talent partner helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality. Learn what she looks for in a candidate, her favorite part of the hiring process, and what she gets up to outside of work.

eBPF lets you run sandboxed programs in a kernel's operating system. Catch up on the heated debate taking place in the service mesh world about how this technology will shape the future of the service mesh and network innovation.

We have a new team member! Get to know Julien, a Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

Today, we are happy to introduce you to the Koyeb Terraform Provider! The Koyeb Terraform provider is a Hashicorp recognized partner provider.

Pulumi is a modern infrastructure as code platform that allows you to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on any cloud using your favorite programming languages. Learn how to deploy a simple Golang application on Koyeb using Pulumi by writing infrastructure code in TypeScript, Golang, and Python.

You can now deploy your full-stack applications and APIs in our newest US-East location near Washington, DC. Enjoy high-end performance and all of the platform's built-in features for your apps in the world's largest connectivity hub.

Today, we are super excited to announce the grand opening of our Frankfurt core location in Germany! Frankfurt is the largest connectivity hub in Europe and is an amazing place to run high-performance and low latency applications.

Learn about continuous deployment, what goes into building a strong continuous deployment pipeline, the value it adds, how it differs from continuous delivery, and getting it built into your application development.

Wondering what is a service mesh? Get all of your service mesh questions answered with this short and sweet primer. We take a look at how the two crucial parts of a service mesh, the control plane and the data plane, work together to handle interservice communication.

Discover how we added end-to-end tracing to all requests for Koyeb Apps. We explain how we implemented end-to-end tracing, why we chose Jaeger and Grafana Agent to power our observability stack, and how we overcame the challenges we encountered along the way.

Heroku's free tier changed the way developers, hobbyists, students, and indie hackers deployed applications. Heroku's announcement to sunset their free tier marks the end of an era. We take the time to reflect on the rise and impact of Heroku’s legendary free tier.

Sitting between clients and backend services, API gateways have a number of uses and benefits. Get the lowdown with this short and simple post on API gateways.

Our team is growing! Get to know Nils, our first Full Stack Engineer, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

We have a new team member! Get to know Anthony, a Senior Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

Koyeb has a new team member! Get to know Diego, our Software Engineering Intern, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

Today, we are super excited to share that the Koyeb platform is available for everyone in public preview. Koyeb is the developer platform to build, deploy and scale full-stack applications where your users are. We've been working on the platform since early 2021. The private preview has been intense with over 10,000 developers joining the community and now over 3000 applications running on the platform.

While writing a comparison of Kubernetes and Koyeb, we tried to determine how much operating a Kubernetes cluster really costs. This section of our comparison took us hours to write and ended up being so long that we decided to write a dedicated post about it. Kubernetes is a proven technology, but the true cost is often underestimated: this post investigates the actual financial costs of using Kubernetes.

If you're afraid to push to production on a Friday, rely on big-bang deployments, or find recovering from an infrastructure failure is a painful and time-consuming incident, then it is seriously time to talk about continuous deployment best practices. Discover the different go-to continuous deployment strategies and how you can get a continuous deployment pipeline built-in to your application by deploying on the Koyeb Serverless Platform.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know our new team member, Nicolas, in this interview. He is a Senior Backend Engineer helping make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

We recently wrote about how the Koyeb Serverless Engine runs microVMS to host your Services but we skipped a big subject: Global Networking. This is a deep dive to understand the life of an end user's request for a service hosted on Koyeb. We explore the technology and components that make up our internal architecture by following the journey of a request from an end-user, through Koyeb's Global Edge Network, and to the application running in one of our Core locations.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know our new team member, Thomas, in this interview. He is a Senior Backend Engineer helping make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

Users have certain expectations for modern web services and applications. Discover how building distributed and global architectures enable you to respond to those standards and and what it really means to deploy globally..

There are several different architecture designs for Web APIs. While REST and RPC remain two popular choices, the arrival of GraphQL and OpenAPI bring new possibilities in the realm of performance, functionality, productivity of your web APIs.

We decided to build our own serverless engine, one that would not be limited by existing implementations. The first version of Koyeb was built on top of Kubernetes and allowed us to quickly build a working cloud platform. After a few months of operating with this version, we decided to move user workloads from Kubernetes to a custom stack based on Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma.

An API gateway is an API management tool that provides several benefits in a microservice architecture. Learn more about how API gateways work, their typical use cases, and what you should consider before implementing one.

Caching is an effective technique for improving performance and reducing latency speeds for the requests of your web services and apps. CDNs bring your content even closer to end-users. Learn about cache control: what it is, how to configure it, and when to use it.

A service mesh is a dedicated layer of infrastructure that simplifies network management and increases visibility into typically complex microservice architectures. We explore this emerging technology by reviewing its history, purpose-built design, and implementations.

Virtualization optimizes the use of computing resources. Firecracker, a lightweight virtualization technology, is transforming the possibilities of serverless workloads.

Event routers are the middlemen in an event-driven system. RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka are two popular event routers with very different implementations. Learn about their difference to make better decisions for powering modern apps.

Service discovery is the vital component in a microservice architecture that enables communication between services. Discover the influence of DNS on service discovery as well as learn about the different models of service discovery and their real-world implementations.

Sync and async are two popular types of programming models when building event-based architectures, APIs, and handling long-running tasks. This blog posts compares async and sync processing as well as covers when to use them.

Event-driven architectures are a great model to align your business with the real-world. Pairing it with serverless technology is a dream come true for your developers and your business.

When considering a FaaS or CaaS deployment strategy, it is worthwhile to consider the difference in the managed responsiblities between FaaS and CaaS offerings. Learn more about ideal use cases and when to use FaaS or CaaS solutions.

Firecracker is a virtualization technology with that is setting the serverless world ablaze. While there are many perks with Firecracker, here are our top ten reasons why we love Firecracker.

FaaS and CaaS are two popular deployment strategies with their own unique advantages and ideal use cases. Knowing what distinguishes them can help when deciding how to build and deploy your web apps.

Virtualization technology is evolving. Firecracker is an emerging solution that combines the security and isolation of bare metal instances with the density and performance of containers.

The serverless computing era is here. Learn about the implications of going serverless as well as the benefits and existing challenges to implementing this emerging technology.

The serverless computing era is here. Learn about the history and evolution of cloud computing to see why developers and businesses are excited about serverless technology.

GKE is a Google Cloud service that offers a managed Kubernetes cluster, the nodes of the clusters are running on Google Cloud VM instances, the control plane and network is fully managed by GKE.

The Koyeb CLI is now available and ready to let you manage all your Koyeb resources directly from your shell! The Koyeb CLI is a critical piece to improve the deployment experience and provide a fast way to interact with Koyeb when you develop your projects.

We are proud to announce the availability of the Koyeb Serverless Engine for everyone and the ability to deploy your own code on Koyeb. In addition to the ready-to-use integrations, you can now seamlessly deploy Docker Containers and Code Functions with built-in Continuous Deployment using Git.

Today we are delighted to announce our €1.4M pre-seed round! This round confirms the need for a new generation of serverless, multi-cloud, platforms with a strong focus on the developer experience.

Today, we are excited to share more about the technology we are building to help you with your cloud journey and to deploy all your platforms in the 2020s.