Justin Rhee - Porter Blog

Should startups use Kubernetes?

For most startups the calculus reduces to the following: is the added complexity of Kubernetes worth its performance benefits?

YC Series

YC Series Part IV: Memberstack's journey from Heroku to AWS with Porter

After encountering repeated issues with Heroku and serverless, Memberstack decided to switch to Porter to get a Heroku-like platform experience in their own cloud.

Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)

Depending on who you ask, Heroku has been in steady decline - or at the very least, has stagnated at the technological level - since its acquisition by Salesforce in 2010.

YC Series

YC Series Part III: How Writesonic simplified Kubernetes with Porter

With Porter managing Writesonic's infrastructure and developer experience on EKS, the Writesonic team can continue to confidently scale without having to worry about being bottlenecked by DevOps.

YC Series

YC Series Part II: How Tajir deploys over 10x faster with Porter

After getting up and running on Porter in less than a day, Tajir experienced a substantial and immediate improvement in developer velocity.

YC Series

YC Series Part I: How Avenue scaled after the batch without hiring DevOps

How Avenue scaled after YC without hiring DevOps

Press

Our Journey Building Porter

We're excited to announce that Porter has raised $1.5m in seed funding from Y Combinator, Venrock, Translink Investment, Soma Capital, and several angel investors. Read more on TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/30/platform-as-a-service-startup-porter-aims-to-become-go-to-platform-for-deploying-managing-cloud-based-apps/] . At Porter [https://github.com/porter-dev/porter], our goal is to become the standard

Tutorial

Guide: Updating Instance Type on AWS EKS

In this guide, we'll walk through an EKS node group update and highlight a few things to look out for when updating an existing cluster.

Tutorial

Guide: Setting up a Tailscale VPN on Kubernetes

Deploy Tailscale to Kubernetes via Helm or Porter to securely access k8s services by cluster IP.