What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
Maker of Basecamp and HEY, and creator of Ruby on Rails, Hotwire and Kamal.
5 things
KamalSoftware
We use KVM to slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs, then Docker to run the containerized applications, and finally Kamal to do zero-downtime app deploys and rollbacks.
37signals runs HEY and Basecamp on its own hardware deployed with its own Kamal
world.hey.com ↗·2023-06-23Wrong?
KVMSoftware
We use KVM to slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs, then Docker to run the containerized applications, and finally Kamal to do zero-downtime app deploys and rollbacks.
37signals completes its exit from the cloud onto its own hardware
world.hey.com ↗·2023-06-23Wrong?
DockerSoftware
We use KVM to slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs, then Docker to run the containerized applications, and finally Kamal to do zero-downtime app deploys and rollbacks.
37signals completes its exit from the cloud onto its own hardware
world.hey.com ↗·2023-06-23Wrong?
KubernetesSoftware
This setup helped us dodge the complexity of Kubernetes, and avoid any sort of enterprisey service contract entanglements.
37signals on avoiding Kubernetes complexity after leaving the cloud
world.hey.com ↗·2023-06-23Wrong?
AWSService Amazon
The back of the napkin math is that we'll save at least $1.5 million per year by owning our own hardware rather than renting it from Amazon.
37signals on leaving AWS for owned hardware
world.hey.com ↗·2023-06-23Wrong?
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