https://github.com/envirobly/stepped
Stepped is a Rails engine, extracted out of Envirobly where it powers tasks like application deployment, that involve complex, out-of-the-band tasks like DNS provisioning, retries, waiting for instances to boot, running health checks and all the fun stuff of a highly distributed networked system.
I'm only utilizing EC2 instances, storage and S3. Everything like databases, load balancers, NAT, even image storage is my own architecture and I'm not utilizing the value added services AWS offers for this and most would default to.
> How do you plan on keeping customers as they scale and mature?
I'll be adding features like DB replication and failover and multi AZ deployments down the line. But you're right, I'm focusing on small to medium size customers that want to run cheap, but still have all the convenience of a platform like Heroku for example.
This is my, fully bootstrapped, take on an application hosting platform. I designed it primarily for myself, to meet the following goals:* Utilize the best parts of the cloud, leave expensive value added services behind. * Host anywhere in the world, close to your users. * Batteries included: backups, logging, monitoring, auto-scaling, containerization, databases. * Simple and user friendly.The...
https://github.com/klevo/locport
Tiny open source tool that introduces .localhost file convention to keep track of all your local project hostnames and ports, without a need for a proxy.I was inspired by DHH's Rails World 2025 keynote on how 37Signals currently handles running apps in development. I realized this whole approach can be standardized.This tool helped me to simplify my local development environment, by dropping a...