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Empire vs Glitch: What are the differences?
Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS. Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku like workflow. It conforms to a subset of the Heroku Platform API, which means you can use the same tools and processes that you use with Heroku, but with all the power of EC2 and Docker; Glitch: The easiest way to build apps and bots. Combining automated deployment, instant hosting and collaborative editing, Gomix gets you straight to coding. The apps you create are instantly live, hosted by us, and always up to date with your latest changes. Build products, prototype ideas, and hack solutions to problems.
Empire and Glitch can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.
Empire is an open source tool with 2.53K GitHub stars and 156 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Empire's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Empire
- 12-factor methodology1
- Open source1
- BSD License1
- Easy deployment1
Pros of Glitch
- Bang! App built12
- Instant APPification ;)9
- Auto commits7
- No no. limitation on free projects4
- Easy to use3
- Tons of usable code2
- Awesome support2
- Very fast API creation. Especially for small apps2
- Github Integration1
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Cons of Empire
Cons of Glitch
- UI could be better / cleaner5
- Limited Support/Diffficult to use Non-JS Languages2
- Automatically suspends proxies1
- Not good for big projects1
- Cannot delete project, only the source code is1
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