Wow, I have to admit that I have not heard anyone in the past 2 years or so to be on Heroku so it makes sense. I think they handled it quite well knowing that there most likely have been a steady decline of users.
Generally I would avoid promoting myself but in this situation I think it fits the topic. I'm co-founder of a Platform-as-a-Service based in Europe named Ploi Cloud [0]. We focus on web applications working on NodeJS and PHP but would be open to other platforms if people need it. Heroku has always been a source of inspiration to me so if you are looking for an alternative and care about it having a strong European presence please check it out. (We do have a US location too!)
Tiny nitpick but you may want to localize the pricing page, in the UK we use . as a separator instead of , - thought you were changing €1000/month for one 1 vCPU!
I'm part of a new hosting platform focusing on the European market, would you be open to discuss what you are looking for and see if we can become partners? Obviously no strings attached :) If so, please drop me an email zander@ploi.cloud
Edit: Forgot to add my thought; I think you should be more clear about what Clink does compared to other software like Claude Code. The building demo's to me (a developer/devops person) are cool but my first thought was 'Why would I use this over Claude Code'? And only in this thread I saw the USP for Clink which makes perfect sense for non-techies!
Thanks for reaching out about the hosting platform! really interested in the European market, will definitely drop you an email once we get things more organized on our end.
You make a great point about the messaging. claude code is definitely comfortable for many devs right now. but we're seeing people constantly switch between codex, claude, and now newer agents like droid and glm. we're positioning ourselves as a mixture of agents platform where you can leverage the best tool for each task.
also yeah, CLI agents are amazing for coding but not great for instant previews or deployments. that's exactly the gap we're filling. the positioning will probably evolve as we learn more from users, but that's the core idea: bring your favorite CLI agents, get the missing pieces (preview + deploy) without paying for another full coding platform.
appreciate the feedback on making this clearer upfront!
I hate it when I look at some code, wondering why I added a refresh call at that point, I do a git blame to find the commit message, and it says "add refresh call".
That only works if the code is good enough to be the documentation. In DayJob prefer to cover all the bases:
∞ Try make the code sensible & readable so it can be the documentation.
∞ Comment well anyway, just in case it isn't as obvious to the reader (which might be me in a few months time) as it is to me when making the change. Excess comments can always be removed later (and, unless some idiot rewrites history, can potentially be referred to after removal if you have a “why t f” moment), comments you never write can't be found later.
∞ Either a directly meaningful commit message, or at very least ticket references to where more details can be found.
For personal tinkering, I'm a lot less fastidious.
When the "why" isn't explained, you end up with things like someone refactoring code and spending time (at best) trying to figure out why some tests now fail or (at worst) breaking something in production.
I'd argue that even the "how" sometimes is better explained in plain words than in code (even if that opens the door for outdated comments when code is changed).
Set a PR template up, that demands those sections are filled in. Could probably do that down to the commit level with pre-commit but realistically you'd want that level of detail in the in the PR. Also add issue id to the commits too, that way you can pull them up easily and get more context.
True, you need to instruct the AI agents to include this.
In our case the agent has access to Jira and has wider knowledge. For commit messages i don’t bother that much anymore (i realise typing this), but for the MRs I do. Here i have to instruct it to remove implementation details.
> you need to instruct the AI agents to include this.
The agent can't do that if you told Claudepilotemini directly to make some change without telling it why you were prompting it to make such a change. LLMs might appear magic, but they aren't (yet) psychic.
He's saying that he likely has an MCP connected to jira on the LLM he's developing with.
Hence the prompt will have already referenced the jira ticket, which will include the why - and if not, you've got a different issue.
Now the LLM will only need something like "before committing, check the jira ticket we're working on and create a commit message ...
But whether you actually want that is a different story. You're off the opinion it's useful, I'd say it's rarely doing to be valuable, because requirements change, making this point in time rational mostly interesting in an academic sense, but not actually valuable for the development you're doing
It depends on a ton of factors, and at least I'd put very little stock in the validity of the commit message that it might as well not exist. (And this is from the perspective of human written ones, not AI)
I think it is a great tool, as someone who has this on his bucketlist but no experience it is really handy. Few points of feedback:
1. When I select the start date, maybe autofill the end date with 2 weeks or so.
2. I dropped my email, but that is not something I enjoyed doing.
3. I think there should be a clear reason what is expensive and what not. My 2 week itinerary was 25k. I have no idea if this is expensive (probably not), but to me this feels insane.
As a European missing a managed hosting solution, me and a buddy of mine are building an alternative: https://ploi.cloud
The goal is quite simple, allow developers to host their application with easy straight forward pricing. We are about to launch very soon. Everything is built on Laravel/PHP.
We are open to beta testers, so if you feel you want to test this please drop me and email in my profile.
Nice job! Site is extremely tastefully designed, and you convey the important features very nicely. The effort you put in to the UI gives me a lot of confidence in the backend, and in the quality of your upcoming product.
I'm a heavy PHP & Laravel developer and I speak for myself and a few close friends around my in my network who are like me. We all consider Laravel the reason we are still within the PHP scene and didn't move away. So in a sense I think it is true.
That said, the recent changes around Laravel (being bought out and becoming more and more commercial) is not something I (we) consider a good thing. Not necessarily a bad thing, but we all know that a OSS framework becoming commercial doesn't usually end well.
The first thing I setup when I started to manage my own Kubernetes cluster more then a year ago was this Warrior, I completely forgot about it until this post.
Has been active for over a year steadily working the recommended project. Downloaded over 3TB in 6 days (node reboot, so pod was restarted and stats are not persistent). So rough extrapolation is about 180TB. Happy to help the good cause of the ArchiveTeam!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, if you run multiple inferences at the same time on the same GPU you will need load multiple models in the vram and the models will fight for resources right? So running 10 parallel inferences will slow everything down 5 times right? Or am I missing something?
Inference for single example is memory bound. By doing batch inference, you can interleave computation with memory loads, without losing much speed (up until you cross the compute bound threshold).
No, the key is to use the full context window so you structure the prompt as something like: For each line below, repeat the line, add a comma then output whether it most closely represents a product or service:
Generally I would avoid promoting myself but in this situation I think it fits the topic. I'm co-founder of a Platform-as-a-Service based in Europe named Ploi Cloud [0]. We focus on web applications working on NodeJS and PHP but would be open to other platforms if people need it. Heroku has always been a source of inspiration to me so if you are looking for an alternative and care about it having a strong European presence please check it out. (We do have a US location too!)
0: https://ploi.cloud