- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 09, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data. Fir is Heroku’s next generation cloud platform , designed to offer more modern cloud-native capabilities with flexibility and scalability. It’s built on proven, open-source technologies. Traditional Heroku relied on proprietary technologies, which was appropriate at the time because high-quality open-source alternatives didn’t exist. But now, technologies like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are considered best-in-class solutions that are widely deployed and supported…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 04, 2025
- Ken W. Alger, Ed Morley
Ah, another day, another deep dive into the ever-evolving world of Python development! Today, let’s talk about something near and dear to every Pythonista’s heart – managing those crucial external packages. For years, pip has been our trusty companion, the workhorse that gets the job done. But the landscape is shifting, and a new contender has entered the arena, promising speed, efficiency, and a fresh approach: uv .
As a Python developer constantly striving for smoother workflows and faster iterations, the buzz around uv has definitely caught my attention. So, let’s roll up our sleeves and explore the benefits…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 22, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
The speed and efficiency of the Go programming language make it popular for backend development. Combine Go with the Gin framework —which offers a fast and minimalistic approach to building web applications—and developers can easily create high-performance APIs and web services. Whether you’re working on a personal project or building a production-ready application, Go and Gin make for an attractive stack perfectly suited for lightweight, scalable web development.
Creating a Go/Gin application might seem straightforward: You write a few routes, connect a database, and spin up a local server. But when it comes to deploying your app, things can get tricky.…
- Uncategorized
- Last Updated: November 19, 2024
- Ken W. Alger
Your organization may have many reasons to move a cloud service from one provider to another. Maybe you’ve found a better performance-versus-cost balance elsewhere. Maybe you’re trying to avoid vendor lock-in. Whatever your reasons, the convenience and general interoperability of cloud services today put you in the driver's seat. You get to piece together the tech stack and the cloud provider(s) that best align with your business.
This includes where you turn for your PostgreSQL database .
If you’re considering migrating your Postgres database to a different cloud provider, such as Heroku, the process might seem daunting.…
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