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By Kelley Schultz
Front-end deployment can embarrass you. Back-end deployment can wake you up at 2:13am. This is where web app deployment stops being about assets and starts being about state, uptime, traffic, and data that absolutely refuses to forget what happened five minutes ago. Back-end deployment is where complexity compounds. Quietly. Patiently. And then all at once. Let's talk about what's actually happening when you "just deploy the API.".
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By Kelley Schultz
Front-end deployment is usually introduced as the easy part of web app deployment. "Build the assets and push them." Seems simple, right? Yet on the contrary, those 6 words have most likely caused more production issues than most error messages. Because while front ends do look simple, they are actually a delicate stack of assumptions wearing a UI that is misleadingly easy to use.
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By Kash Sajadi
I've been in this industry since before the word "PaaS" existed. I founded Cloud 66 in 2012 — the same year Heroku was peaking, dotCloud was pivoting to become Docker, and the idea of "just git push and forget about servers" felt like the future. It was the future. Partly. The deployment experience was revolutionary. The business model wasn't. Last week, Heroku announced its transition to "sustaining mode" — no new features, no new enterprise contracts.
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By Kash Sajadi
Last week, Heroku announced it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model." In plain English: no new features, no new enterprise contracts for new customers, and Salesforce is redirecting its investment elsewhere. The platform will be maintained for security and stability, but that's it. If you've been in this industry long enough, you know what "sustaining mode" means.
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By Kelley Schultz
Let's be honest: everyone says they want continuous deployment. "Ship all the time! Move fast! Break absolutely nothing!" But the only reason any of that is even remotely possible is because of one unsung hero quietly doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes: Ah, the deployment pipeline - aka your code's obstacle course / gauntlet / walk in the park… depending on how well it's behaving.
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By Kelley Schultz
You know that feeling right before you deploy? The mix of excitement, dread, and the quiet hope that production behaves this time? Yeah — we’ve all been there. That’s why we are big fans of blue-green deployment. It’s one of those DevOps patterns that sounds fancy but is actually just good engineering hygiene — and it can save your morning/afternoon/evening or let’s be honest, your late night.
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By Kash Sajadi
This is a comparison of various different coding agents. We conducted this prior to the release of Google’s Gemini 3 and hope to update it soon with Google Gemini 3 inclusion.
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By Khash Sajadi
Like many others, as a company, we are going through a steep learning exercise with coding agents. As we are all learning together how to face the challenges of this new era of coding, I wanted to share our learnings with you and, in turn, benefit from what you have learned in your journey with using coding agents.
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By Khash Sajadi
We’re excited to announce the rollout of Cloud 66 Deploy v3 — a major evolution of our deployment platform built from the ground up for flexibility, modern workloads, and future growth. While Deploy v2 has served many teams well over the years, Deploy v3 brings a fresh architecture and new capabilities designed for today’s cloud-native needs. Here’s what you need to know.
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By Khash Sajadi
In our Go projects, we rely on a consistent and battle-tested stack of libraries that help us build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems. We started using Go in our stack many years ago (before Go v1) and therefore many of our choices have changed over the years. Here in this post, I wanted to share some of the libraries we use regularly to power our Go apps.
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By Cloud 66
Application Groups are arbitrary collections of your applications that can be deployed simultaneously. Groups are not mutually exclusive - applications can exist in more than one group. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”. Useful links.
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By Cloud 66
A failover group is a managed, quick-response DNS address that automatically follows your application's web endpoints. You can connect it to up to two instances of an application at any time - a primary and backup instance. Should you need to switch traffic between your instances, you can flip a switch and your traffic will begin flowing to the backup instance within 5 minutes. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 supports two types of backups: managed and unmanaged. Managed backups: Using managed backups has several benefits: The 100 most recent managed backups are kept by default. Unmanaged backups: Unmanaged backups are stored on your local server and are available under `/var/cloud66/backups`. The 10 most recent unmanaged backups are kept by default. We don’t charge for unmanaged backups. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Database replication involves configuring a master and replica database architecture, whereby the replica is an exact copy of the master at all times. This feature is supported for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB. Database replication can be set up for a single application, between applications, or between database groups. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 offers a range of deployment options for your applications: And there are also two types of Rollouts strategies available: What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
What are Preview Deployments? Preview Deployments automatically build and deploy a (private) preview version of your application whenever you commit changes to your repo. The preview runs alongside your active application and helps you to quickly test changes to your code without having to deploy to a separate environment. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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Cloud 66 will not do in-place database upgrades, because this process may cause your application to stop working or may not be possible automatically. To upgrade your database through Cloud 66, we recommend that you create a new application (at which point Cloud 66 will deploy the newer database version). Once the new application is created, you can migrate data from your old application to your new application.
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By Cloud 66
LiveLogs is Cloud 66’s real-time logging interface. It allows you to monitor your app via the Cloud 66 Dashboard. You can set up custom Live Logs via your Manifest file. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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By Cloud 66
Cloud 66 aims to make it easier to build immutable infrastructure. Building servers and applications from scratch is much better than modifying existing server configurations and tinkering with settings until things start to work.
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Traffic consist of one or more functions that run in a sequence. They run from top to bottom and affect the route that each web request to your application takes. They can also block traffic based on different conditions. If traffic is blocked, it will not run through the rest of the rules that come after the current one. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.
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Cloud 66 helps developers to deploy code, directly from the repository to their own servers on any cloud.
Discover Cloud 66 products:
- Cloud 66 for Rails - allows developers to deploy and manage Rails, Sinatra, and other Rack-based applications on any cloud.
- Cloud 66 Maestro - offers a full-stack container management service backed up by Kubernetes. You can deploy any application (any language, any framework) to any cloud, as long as you have a Dockerfile.
- Cloud 66 Prepress - builds and deploys pre-rendered, JAMStack applications (Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby) on your own cloud.
From commit to production in minutes. Getting started:
- Connect your Git repository. We will analyze your code and automatically suggest the best configuration for you.
- Connect your cloud provider or server. We are natively integrated with AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Vultr, OVH cloud and Maxihost. Or bring your own server and we'll provision it for you.
- Deploy! Once your application is deployed take the advantage of our features to enhance your application.
Features:
- Provision — builds your infrastructure straight from your code.
- Deployment — supports rolling, parallel, blue/green and canary deployment strategies and full deployment history with easy rollbacks.
- Databases - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached & RabbitMQ deployment, backups and replication on your own servers.
- Security — provides simple firewall management, stress-free DDoS protection and powerful account security tools.
- Scaling — cloud load balancing, worker process management and horizontal scaling on any cloud.
- Teams — unlimited team members at no extra cost, with fine-grained control over permissions and roles. Multi-organization support.
Cloud 66 products help companies build, deploy and manage their applications without hiring DevOps teams.