[wiradikusuma]

Meanwhile, if you're building something smaller than Netflix, I'm writing a book just about that (https://opinionatedlaunch.com/).

It's about mobile apps, but I talk about backend at great length, especially since my background is Java. The book is called "opinionated" because I cover Quarkus (https://quarkus.io/), monolith, Fly.io, and no K8s. No fancy stuff to pad your CV, just to get things done the simplest way possible, with the least headache in maintenance (I'm lazy).

[taffer]

Why Fly.io if you want to build a monolith? Compared to Heroku or Render, to me Fly.io seems to be more aimed at edge computing.

[wiradikusuma]

I want Heroku experience without paying Heroku price, so Render and Fly.io were an option.

But when I evaluated them, Render didn't support loading my own docker image, so it's incompatible with my build process and CI/CD.

The book is a living document, and I always try to find easier/cheaper/faster/better ways of doing things, so I'll definitely check Render again!

[anurag]

Render supports loading your own Docker image now: https://docs.render.com/deploy-an-image