I don't know about you - but I'm ready to eradicate the existential dread that the AWS console and CloudFormation embed into my daily life. I love AWS and Azure - and all that they facilitate - but the constant "gluing" together, ambiguity and unnecessary complexity just isn't productive. IAM? IAM NOT.
I want to love Heroku too - their tooling is fantastic and they own the developer experience. But the last Rails app I deployed on Heroku went from < 300ms response times to > 2.5s - inexplicably. My postgres database was publicly accessible, and that $7/month price tag is surely a fugazi.
So I'm planting my flag in the ground: Hyperlaunch - a new way to approach dev-ops, bringing Heroku level ease to your own cloud accounts.
Pair up a repo with a Dockerfile, and Hyperlaunch will give you back a fully load-balanced, auto-scaling web service. With a locked down database. And Staging, Production and Preview releases. On your own AWS account. Forget Cloudformation, Terraform and Kubernetes - it’s time to move fast and ship things.
I plan to document the build as I go - it's going to be a Next.js, typescript, Postgres and CDK based stack. In the meantime, you can sign up for early invites at Hyperlaunch.com.
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