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Release
Company blog · releasehub.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Release is the company blog at releasehub.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention ReleaseHub as an environments-as-a-service vendor in DevOps and build-vs-buy discussions, one of them as an employee. The comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI writes the code, preview environments ship it. Release gives every pull request and every AI agent a full-stack, production-like ephemeral preview environment in your own cloud—so humans and AI can verify every change before it ships.
Most-linked posts?
- ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
- How to host a Mastodon instance on AWS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-16
What Hacker News says?
I think the key to getting a good answer here is the “beyond heroku” part. It is hard to make suggestions without knowing why a platform as a service no longer works. There are so many different options available but they very for different needs. Regardless, I would assume that you are going to have to pay more for a managed solution that managing everything yourself. I know the founders at https://releasehub.com/…
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on “Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?”Submitted Great SaaS Demos Enabled by DevOps Tools as a story · 55 points
HN discussionhttps://releasehub.com/ (Disclaimer, first listed because I work here) https://www.quali.com/ https://www.withcoherence.com/ https://webapp.io/ https://www.uffizzi.com/ https://www.qovery.com/ https://www.devzero.io/ These exist in the B2B space (and isn't an exhaustive list), there are a ton more in the B2C space
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on “Ask HN: Whats a Build vs. Buy decision that you got wrong?”Submitted ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia as a story · 50 points
HN discussionIf I'm on Kubernetes already, what does this bring over something like ArgoCD? Is it just a managed version of the same feature set, or does it do things Argo can't? It seems to hint at some sauce to swap in production-like data but I can't see much on that usecase. ( https://releasehub.com/use-cases#migration-test-environments ) Having a tight integration into Github would be great ( https://docs.releasehub.com/wha…
Comment linking /use-cases
on “ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia”Submitted What's with all these Kubernetes volumes? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating and Configuring Kubernetes Service Account as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Health Checks are the most important thing an SRE does as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with infrastructure as code on AWS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes Namespaces the Ultimate Guide as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Still Putting Secrets into Git as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Manufacturing in Software Development with Ephemeral Environments as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Release Uses Action Cable and Redux Toolkit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webhook Authentication Learnings for GitHub, Gitlab, and Bitbucket as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to solve the DevOps talent gap as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why would you deploy Kubernetes WITH Terraform? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rainbow Deployment: Why and How to Do It as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Noteable increases developer productivity by 50% as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing RSpec Tests for Route53 / AWS SDK as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contributing to Open Source – Getting Started as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReleaseHub study shows how environments improve efficiency as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cutting Build Time in Half with Docker’s Buildx Kubernetes Driver as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn how to host your own Mastodon instance on AWS with Release as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to host a Mastodon instance on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes StatefulSet: When and How to Use It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Storage Sharing in Kubernetes/EKS at Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three ways you're doing modern web development wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chipper Cash can cut downtime and increase efficiencies for devs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to support OAuth2.0 callbacks in ephemeral environments..perfectly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReleaseHub Announces $20M Series A Round Led by CRV as a story · 1 points
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