Why teams move past Render’s database-only model, the specific limits worth knowing about, and how simple the underlying migration actually is. Render earned its reputation as the platform a lot of teams moved to after Heroku’s free tier disappeared in 2022 — modern dashboard, Git-based deploys, genuinely useful free static hosting. For plenty of projects, it’s still […]
Why companies are moving off Heroku, what it costs to stay versus move, and enough engineering detail for your technical team to trust the plan. If you’re a founder or a budget owner rather than the engineer who deploys code, a “database migration” conversation usually starts with a question you actually care about: is this […]
Why teams still make this move, exactly where the dialect differences bite, and how to plan a conversion that doesn’t quietly corrupt data on the way through. Every other migration in this series has one thing in common that makes life easier: the source is already Postgres. A MySQL or MSSQL to Supabase migration doesn’t get that […]
Neon is, by design, one of the best serverless Postgres platforms available — branching, autoscaling, storage and compute split apart so either can scale independently. None of that is in question. What changes for teams considering a Neon to Supabase migration isn’t usually dissatisfaction with Neon as a database. It’s that a database was never […]
Why teams stop stitching Cognito, S3, and API Gateway together by hand — and what actually happens to your database, auth, and API layer along the way. Amazon RDS is, at its core, a very good managed Postgres instance — and nothing more. That’s not a criticism; it’s the design. RDS handles provisioning, patching, and […]
A practical look at the reasons behind the move, what happens to your data and auth, and how to plan a migration that doesn’t break production. Firebase is a great way to ship a first version fast. Firestore, Auth, and Storage come pre-wired, and for a prototype or an early MVP, that speed is exactly […]
