Heroku made deploying easy, but growing teams eventually outgrew it. AI coding agents are bringing that speed back, along with a new challenge: keeping track of what every engineer and every agent is shipping.
Discover five key lessons from Cycle's competitors in the DevOps and container orchestration space. Learn how Cycle balances flexibility with simplicity, scales without growing DevOps teams, automates security updates, enhances ease of use without limits, and ensures transparent pricing.
Experiencing massive early success and years of growth on the horizon, the FlowPath team needed to find a long-term platform to outperform Heroku while staying cloud agnostic. Explore how the strategic decision to use Cycle enabled them to stay focused on their core product, use existing AWS credits, and cut long-term costs dramatically.
Heroku has held a major place in the PaaS market for years, but as the industry evolves, is stagnation setting in? Cycle.io offers a new approach to PaaS that is more flexible, more powerful, and more cost-effective. Here's how we stack up against the competition.
Introducing Cycle's Infrastructure Abstraction Layer (IAL).
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This release strengthens the network foundation and adds new capabilities for teams running on Cycle. Inter-node IPsec now rolls encryption keys more often and handles high-throughput links better. The native load balancer responds much faster to route, instance, and DNS changes in large environments. The release also introduces an integrated, highly available message bus for pub/sub within your environments, and External Volumes now support AWS EBS volumes natively. Rounding out the release are HTTP/2 improvements across the load balancer and internal API, simpler traffic splitting, and more control over pipelines and virtual machines.