Grow beyond the limitations of a one-size-fits-all PaaS like Heroku

Are you on the way to building the next billion-dollar app?

Move away from the limitation of a Heroku-like PaaS by automating your DevOps with our Developer Control Plane, the perfect internal developer PaaS without the hardcoded limitations.

If you foresee hitting a certain level of cost or complexity, it’s worth thinking about an alternative to Heroku.

What makes a Developer Control Plane unique?

  • Turn any cloud into a PaaS - Benefit from the best-in-class tooling and services from all the major cloud providers - AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean while still simplifying DevOps
  • Build custom CI/CD workflows - Build and test your code with Pipelines; preview apps with Services; deploy using Commands from Slack, and CLI.
  • DevOps Insights - Gain sophisticated insights with data from builds and workflows without needing third party plugins.
  • Plan for growth & complexity - Leverage best of breed Cloud Native technology like k8s and move beyond basic autoscaling.
  • Stay cost-efficient - Adopt a multi-cloud strategy or choose any cloud provider as you grow; no cloud lock-ins.
  • Regain control - Decide your application's architecture and enjoy the migration option anytime.
  • Workflow Commands - Set up, update, and destroy your infrastructure using custom commands directly from your terminal or event via Slack.
  • Manage multiple Environments - enable every developer to control your dev, staging, and production environments directly on the Developer Control Plane.
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Platform
  • Multiple integration support with different Cloud Vendors (AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP, Azure).
  • Run Workflows and deployments with a single command.
  • One Size fits PasS.
  • Requires build packs, which can be difficult to customize and understand.
Performance
  • Deploy complex and large applications faster and seamlessly, featuring automated provisioning and 24/7 monitoring.
  • Subsequent deployments are slow for large applications.
Open Source
  • Workflows for Cloud Providers are open-source on GitHub.
  • Build mechanism locked in on Platform.
Flexibility
  • Integrates several Cloud services, so you won’t need to worry about doing it yourself.
  • Quickly develop, test, and release deployable images across multiple environments.
  • Flexible autoscaling, allowing you to only pay for resources you have consumed.
  • Server maintenance for application usage, the addons are expensive.
  • Hard response timeout of 30 seconds and cannot be configured or changed.
Cost-efficiency
  • Adopt a multi-cloud strategy or choose the cloud that works best for your needs.
  • High pricing when running production and staging workloads; pay a premium for large users and high traffic volume.
Storage
  • Convenient block storage for data across different Workflows and Cloud Providers.
  • Run stateful applications like MySQL, Mongo, and ElasticSearch.
  • S3-compatible object storage.
  • Cannot store data across deploys.
  • Apps are contained within the dynos, written files are erased when the container is restarted.
  • Depends on third-party addons.
Enterprise-grade support
  • All the managed users enjoy a dedicated community and 24/7 technical support at no extra cost.
  • Users must pay an additional 1K USD/month to get business-critical support.
ChatOps
  • Run, build, and deploy workflow from ChatOps integrations like Slack.
  • No ChatOps support is available.
Security
  • Applications are protected by Advanced DDoS Protection.
  • Continuously monitor your account and workloads using intelligent threat detection.
  • Basic DDoS protection and recommends using a dedicated provider for more attacks.

Why choose the Developer Control Plane?

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Improves Developer Experience

Set up custom workflows that work with any cloud of your choice without creating vendor lock-in.

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Enables you to work around blockers

Manage and set up a fully managed workflow to release to any cloud from your CLI.

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More customization and flexibility

Enable a productive development environment with access to your favourite tools.

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Real-time support directly in Slack

Get 24/7 enterprise-grade support when issues arise.

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