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By Upsun
If your team has adopted AI coding agents, you've probably noticed something strange: writing code stopped being the hard part. That's the shift Patrick, a principal engineer at Upsun, kept returning to in our latest Product Highlights conversation. He's spent twelve years here, most of them writing back-end APIs in Go, and the past year building with AI on our newest product, Upsun Dispatch. His verdict on where the bottleneck moved is blunt: "The code isn't really a problem anymore.
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By Upsun
There's a version of cloud strategy that looks like a decision and a version that looks like drift. Most enterprises are living the second version. AWS won an early workload because the team knew it. Azure followed the Microsoft enterprise agreement. GCP came in through a data science team that preferred its ML tooling. Nobody chose concentration; it just accumulated.
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By Upsun
Ask any engineering leader how AI has changed their team, and you'll get an optimistic answer. Ask them to prove it with a number, and most go quiet. That gap is the story of 2026. Individual engineers are faster than they've ever been. Teams, in a lot of cases, aren't. We talked to our own engineering team, the people who've spent the last year building and shipping Upsun Dispatch and living through exactly this shift, and the same tension came up again and again.
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By Upsun
When platform providers talk about autoscaling, they usually mean one thing: application autoscaling, adding or removing web instances based on traffic. The pattern is well understood. Define a metric, set a threshold, and let the platform act on it. Most platforms still leave database capacity as a separate, mostly manual problem. Teams either pre-provision for the worst hour of the worst day, upgrade plans on a calendar, or wire together their own scaling logic on Kubernetes or RDS.
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By Upsun
Hosting an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on Upsun lets AI IDEs like Cursor, Codex, Claude Code and Windsurf reach real infrastructure context (database schemas, service logs, environment variables), closing the gap between local coding assistants and your cloud environment.
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By Upsun
For most IT leaders, multicloud didn't arrive as a decision. It arrived as a fait accompli. A team chose AWS for one workload. Azure came in through a Microsoft enterprise agreement. A SaaS acquisition brought its own cloud dependencies. A DR requirement pointed to a second region with a different provider. Nobody declared a multicloud strategy; the organization just became one. Today, 87% of organizations run a multicloud strategy, balancing an average of 2.6 public cloud providers simultaneously.
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By Upsun
Application autoscaling has existed for years. Database autoscaling has lagged behind. Today, that changes on Upsun. Managed PostgreSQL and MariaDB read replicas now autoscale, joining worker autoscaling in production since March 2026. Apps, workers, and managed databases all autoscalead replicas saturate first, connection pools max, someone getse on one platform - natively, without a third-party database engine or a Kubernetes layer to operate. Three operational headaches just disappeared.
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By Upsun
As Staff Engineers and Principal Architects, most of us have spent years thinking about long-term system health. We are considerate of the company’s business objectives and strategy, accumulation of technical debt, and operational risk. For us it is not about whether code works today, but whether the engineer who inherits it in three years will be able to understand what it was trying to do and why. That's what makes a codebase maintainable rather than just functional.
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By Upsun
Database migrations are where the mock data problem shows up most clearly. A migration that adds an index to a table with 500 rows in the development database runs in milliseconds and passes every test. The same migration against a production table with 8 million rows locks the table for 90 seconds during peak traffic. Nobody saw it coming because nobody tested it against 8 million rows. This isn't an edge case.
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By Upsun
There is a question a lot of engineering leaders are quietly sitting with right now: we have rolled out AI tools across the team, the developers seem faster, so why isn't more software actually shipping? It is a reasonable thing to consider. Pull requests are opening faster. Lines of code per sprint are up. The boilerplate that used to take full afternoons now takes minutes. By every local measure, the investment is paying off.
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By Upsun
AI helped your engineers ship more code. It didn't help your team ship more product. So where did the bottleneck actually go? In this Product Highlights conversation, Patrick—a principal engineer at Upsun with twelve years building back-end APIs in Go—breaks down what changed once AI agents entered the workflow. His take: "The code isn't really a problem anymore. We can write that really fast. Everything else is still a bit behind the code." We get into.
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By Upsun
Leverage AI coding assistants like Claude to develop your application with Upsun. This video goes through the Upsun development flow from cloning your production environment to testing your new code with read data and merging into production. The core task is to add a "Total Revenue" card to an e-commerce dashboard. We will show how a single, complex natural language prompt can orchestrate the entire development lifecycle.
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By Upsun
Too often, we are told to highlight our weaknesses as a means for growth. From job interviews, to performance reviews, to our own self-reflection, we shine the light on what we do poorly. Building our careers isn't about doing everything well - instead, it's about doing what we already know we're good at to the best of our ability, and using the knowledge of our weakness to employ our strengths. Join Mary Thomas to learn why identifying and leaning into our strengths becomes our weakness Superpower.
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By Upsun
From monolith to multi-app join us as we explore more in this Symfony demo: Once upon a time, great people created a great Symfony demo, to be used as a living code example and help us all learn: Bigfoot. Since then, the DevRel team at Platform.sh has forked this repo and created a really fun escape game to showcase Blackfire. And we thought it would be good to have a dedicated frontend for our game, instead of reusing the Bigfoot design.
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By Upsun
It’s easy to assume that our users are experts when writing documentation. But technical writing without diagrams, code examples, videos, screenshots and more can ostracise a large chunk of users who are simply searching for help when using your product. When writing technical documentation, empathy allows us to imagine ourselves as the reader: a junior developer who just started on the job, a sales manager who needs more information for a client deck, a member of the customer success team helping a client on a video call.
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By Upsun
In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.
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By Upsun
In this video, learn how to enable and configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire. The tutorial covers steps to enable features across multiple environments via the Organization settings / Front-end usage in the Blackfire dashboard. Control front-end observability by enabling or disabling Browser Monitoring and Analytics per environment, using a JavaScript probe and a unique browser key. The video emphasizes the importance of naming transactions and explains how to manually add tracking snippets to HTML for better control.
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By Upsun
Blackfire continuously profiles and monitors decoupled PHP and Python applications, helping you optimize performance, anticipate issues, and future-proof your apps so you can stay in full control—even before crises.
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By Upsun
Looking to maximize the performance of your Magento or Adobe Commerce store? In this deep-dive session, Platform.sh experts Jared Wright and Jerry’s Ida share best practices for optimizing infrastructure, caching strategies, database tuning, and deployment processes. Learn how to scale for high-traffic events like Black Friday Discover Magento-specific optimizations for caching, Redis, and MySQL Reduce downtime with efficient deployment strategies Use tools like Blackfire to track and improve performance.
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By Upsun
In this insightful webinar, Corey Dockendorf and Michael Riley delve into the critical challenges facing IT leaders today. They tackle three main issues: the lack of visibility with traditional hosting providers, scaling infrastructure efficiently without increasing complexity, and keeping IT teams focused, productive, and well-rested. Learn how modern cloud application platforms and PaaS solutions can transform your operations, enhance transparency, and optimize performance. Discover practical insights, real-life examples, and strategies to improve your IT workflow and leverage smarter solutions for better business outcomes.
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By Upsun
Welcome to Platform.sh! Start improving your workflow and process with our simple but comprehensive training guide.
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By Upsun
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By Upsun
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By Upsun
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Upsun is the multi-cloud application platform trusted by 6,000+ enterprises and 16,000 developers worldwide to eliminate infrastructure complexity and accelerate digital delivery. Named to the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms, Upsun provides the standardization, security, and global scalability that IT leaders need to empower their teams without compromising on governance.
In an era of increasing complexity, Upsun makes application management simple. Our Git-native workflows and AI-assisted deployment features empower both human developers and AI coding assistants to ship faster while reducing operational risk. We provide the "guardrails as a service" that allow small teams to operate at enterprise standards, focusing on innovation rather than infrastructure.
Key capabilities:
- AI-native ops: Leverage AI-assisted onboarding to automatically generate configurations and debug deployments. Use Isolated AI Agent Testing to clone production-grade environments (code, data, and services) for safe evaluation before public release.
- Built for regulated environments: Secure-by-design, auditable hosting tailored for financial services and other highly regulated sectors. Upsun provides SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 compliance out of the box.
- Production-equivalent environments: Automatically create isolated, production-like environments for every change. This ensures every deployment is versioned, traceable, and tested against real-world data to satisfy internal controls and audits.
- Polyglot and portable: Full support for Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, and Rust, alongside managed services like PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and OpenSearch. Our portable architecture ensures no cloud lock-in, allowing you to deploy on AWS or any major cloud provider.
- Sustainable, global scale: Maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA while meeting sustainability goals. Upsun offers greener region discounts for low-carbon hosting, allowing you to scale globally and responsibly.
By bridging the gap between developer autonomy and enterprise governance, Upsun ensures your architecture remains portable, your deployments remain repeatable, and your team stays focused on delivering value.