As a startup, should one start on AWS or Heroku? What are the pros and cons of each? How do I best make a decision?

Heroku offers quick setup and peace of mind but it is an expensive solution.

AWS is hard to setup but gives you full control over your infrastructure.

So, which one should you start with during the early days of your company? Is there a sweetspot? We will have several speakers share their opinions on this

Agenda

6:00 - 6:10 Intro
6:10 - 6:30 Heroku with RDS database for startups: Why and how, Pawel Urbanek
6:40 - 7:00 Serverless for Startups - Lambda & friends vs Heroku, Ric da Silva
7:10 - 7:30 TBC

Speakers

Pawel Urbanek

Full Stack web development consultant specializing in Ruby on Rails performance. Experienced in building scalable APIs for startups and refactoring legacy codebases. Blogging about web development related topics on https://pawelurbanek.com. After hours I train rock climbing to rest my wrists from the keyboard.

Join us for some freebies and discounts announced on the day, exclusive for this meetup members.

Ric da Silva

Formerly software/data engineer at CMR Surgical (UK), doing robotics and other cool stuff. Spent six months building open source software for serverless systems (Condense9). If he wasn’t coding, he’d be climbing. Yup, another rock climber

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