
Hard Lessons From Hardware
An intern’s journey: building a UI device, debugging hardware problems, and ultimately deploying it to cloud via Defang.
Insights on application platforms, developer experience, and building in the cloud.

An intern’s journey: building a UI device, debugging hardware problems, and ultimately deploying it to cloud via Defang.

Preview BYOC support for DigitalOcean, managed Postgres, improved AI features, and platform scaling enhancements.

August brought Ask Defang launch, better parity for compose/BYOC workflows, smarter debugging, and community events.

We scaled our Playground to handle many users and released defang debug — AI-powered debugging for failed cloud deployments.

Windows users get winget install & signed binary. Added one-click deploy from samples, managed Redis rollout, CLI output & error improvements.

June’s update delivered sample templates, ACME support for custom domains, stateful-service warnings, and support for managed Redis.

Run Defang via npx, use any domain with BYOC + Let’s Encrypt, improved Windows support, and clearer CLI feedback.

Learn how to build and deploy a Go Slack bot with Defang: configure tokens, write the bot, and launch it in the cloud.

Integrate Defang into Codespaces, Dev Containers or GitPod so you can deploy containerized apps to your cloud with a single command.

An intern’s story: struggling with AWS, then switching to Defang’s defang compose up to deploy smoothly without DevOps pain.

Defang exits private beta and launches Public Beta with BYOC support — deploy your apps to your own AWS account leveraging your cloud setup.

Defang launches Private Beta for DOP: AI-assisted development, auto CI/CD, secure staging + production, and smarter cloud deployments.