Engine Yard Cloud vs OpenResty

Overview

Engine Yard Cloud

Stacks25

Followers36

Votes7

OpenResty

Stacks2.3K

Followers227

Votes0

Engine Yard Cloud vs OpenResty: What are the differences?

What is Engine Yard Cloud? Deploy and scale Rails applications in the cloud. The Engine Yard Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a product family that leverages open source technologies to orchestrate and automate the configuration, deployment and management of applications on multiple infrastructures.

What is OpenResty? Turning Nginx into a Full-fledged Web App Server. OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.

Engine Yard Cloud belongs to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack, while OpenResty can be primarily classified under "Web Servers".

OpenResty is an open source tool with 7.13K GitHub stars and 984 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenResty's open source repository on GitHub.

Shopify, Kong, and Pagar.me are some of the popular companies that use OpenResty, whereas Engine Yard Cloud is used by ChallengePost, Firecracker, and CoolWorks. OpenResty has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Engine Yard Cloud, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Engine Yard Cloud	OpenResty
The Engine Yard Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a product family that leverages open source technologies to orchestrate and automate the configuration, deployment and management of applications on multiple infrastructures.	OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.
Dedicated, secure, commercial-grade platform that increases agility;Focus on your code - not on operations or platform maintenance;Scale cloud applications and infrastructure rapidly;Control over your environment's configuration;Improved uptime and data reliability;Built-in monitoring and alerts to improve performance	-
Statistics
Stacks 25	Stacks 2.3K
Followers 36	Followers 227
Votes 7	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Great customer support 1 Simple deployment	No community feedback yet
Integrations
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What are some alternatives to Engine Yard Cloud, OpenResty?

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Google App Engine

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Unicorn

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.