Engine Yard vs. Superblocks

It is best for rapidly getting your application to the cloud without worrying about standing up cloud infrastructure

Incentivized

Superblocks is great for building internal tools for your company. We have our finances running on Superblocks, our client services running on it, as well as a lot of internal tooling for our product. You can build full-apps using their API builder, Workflow builder, Scheduled Jobs, and UI builder. All without having to handle your own infrastructure. It's meant to be one extra abstraction layer on top of other developer infrastructure tools like AWS, Vercel, etc.

• Quick deployments
• Easily integrate your code from GitHub
• Ability to recover site quickly to different zone when AWS has a widespread outage

Incentivized

• Easy to use User Interface builder for building internal apps
• Scheduled Jobs and Workflow builder in multiple languages
• API builder for support your User Interface for your internal apps

• Embracing new Amazon Web Servicess(AWS) features
• Security groups need more granularity
• Audit trails of what happens by who in environment, especially when VM is deleted

Incentivized

• More flexibility on UI component designs

Ease of use

Incentivized

More closely aligns to native AWS

Incentivized

• Positive in the sense that we can deploy new applications quickly for MVP

Incentivized

• We've saved thousands of developer hours that would have otherwise spent on maintaining infrastructure