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Say Goodbye to Heroku Free Tier: Here Are 4 Alternatives

28 November 2022 was a sad day for developers. If you haven't heard, Salesforce (Heroku’s parent organization) has phased out its free tier plan on this date. For many years, Heroku has been the de facto standard platform as a service (PaaS). So many students and developers

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Saying Goodbye to Heroku Postgres for Now

A little less than a year ago, I built Burplist, a free search engine for craft beer in Singapore. Intending to keep my infrastructure cost as low as possible, I started with Heroku Postgres free tier. With a row limit of 10,000 and a storage capacity of 1 GB,

How I Built A Craft Beer Search Engine For Free

How I Built A Craft Beer Search Engine For Free

Craft beers are delicious. Expensively delicious. When I first came to Singapore, I was introduced to the wonders of craft beers. Coming from Malaysia, I felt spoiled by the number of choices available here. Soon, my friends and I got caught up with the craft beer fever, but there was

How To Deploy Python Scrapy Spiders for Free on Cloud

Running Scrapy spiders in your local machine can be very convenient during the early stage of development. But, we would eventually need to deploy and run our spiders in the cloud periodically. In search of free options for running periodic crawling jobs, I have come across a few options available

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