News from Skyliner
March, 2017
Hello from Skyliner! We hope our Smarch newsletter finds you well. We have a bunch of new features and updates this month. If you’d like to chat about any of this, join our community Slack, or drop us a line.
Application History Page
We have debugged many an application bug by figuring out when the error logs started, and then looking to see what was pushed in the moments prior. To help you with this we’ve released a new history page for all of your applications. It shows a consolidated log of deploys, task runs (like database migrations) and other events.
Free Porting Services for Heroku Apps
We’ve gotten a great response so far to our offer to help port Heroku apps to AWS. Everyone we’ve migrated has been happy with the switch, and reports significantly lower infrastructure expenses. It has been personally very gratifying for us to help small businesses and side projects alike maintain healthy margins.
We’re still taking on new migrations. All you have to do is point us at the repo and we’ll do the rest. Interested? Sign up today!
New Django and Swift Templates
You can now launch a new latest-and-greatest Django application with a single click.
We at Skyliner consider ourselves in comradeship with all “use one language” partisans everywhere. To that end, we’ve added a new Swift template using the Vapor web app framework. If you’re building an app targeted at iOS, now you can write your backend service in your native frontend language.
AWS Region Status
You may have heard about the us-east-1 outage that happened late last month. AWS outages are rare, but occasionally spectacular. Notably, this time, the critical internet backbone service “Down For Everyone or Just Me” also went down. As a remediation Skyliner will now notify you if there are AWS status advisories in any of your regions.
Your Builds are Cheaper Now
We’ve switched Docker images over to S3 Standard — Infrequent Access storage, which should cost about half as much. This is a model Skyliner feature release in that you need to do exactly nothing to take advantage of it.
Until Next Month
That’s all for now. If you haven’t tried Skyliner yet, sign up now! It’s free for personal use. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch in our public community Slack.
