Raphaël: Hey, and welcome back to our series on EC's methodology. Last time we talked about growth and scalability. Today, we're going to talk about infrastructure. There are different places you might want to deploy your application to. Remember when we talked about growth planning? Well, you're going to want to use that growth planning to decide what infrastructure to deploy to. Okay. So you've got your growth curve mapped out and you're ready to start designing this thing.
One of the things you'll need to know before you get started is what are the capabilities of the infrastructure I plan to deploy to. Basically, you need to know what you can and can't do with the resources available to you. For example, if you're deploying a static site, you can get away with services like Firebase Hosting or Netlify. However, if you know that your system is going to require complex relational data, you'll probably need a relational database.
If you know you're going to keep things relatively simple, then you could use a service like Heroku and their Postgres database offering. If you know you're going to be building a few different services and you want cost stability and simplicity, then DigitalOcean might be a good option for you. DigitalOcean's Kubernetes platform is our go-to for clients who have those sort of in-between needs.
Finally, if you know you're going to be building complex systems need to scale out a lot, have solid engineers, and your budget isn't too limited, then you'll probably want to use one of the big cloud hosting platforms. The two big cloud platforms we like best are Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. But we also know people who have built amazing things with Microsoft's Azure Offering.
You can keep costs slow with these big platforms, but it's also easy to accidentally rack up a higher bill because of the complexity. You'll also need a more senior engineer to make sure things are properly configured. We'd love to hear what your favorite platforms are and why. So let us know. And follow us.
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