Clouds

Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering - Ian Foster, Dennis B. Gannon (:construction: in process)
Cloud Design Patterns
Designing Distributed Systems (account required)
Distributed Systems 3rd edition Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum (email address required)
Kubernetes Hardening Guidance - NSA, CISA (PDF)
Monitoring Modern Infrastructure (account required)
Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition
OpenStack Operations Guide
Streamline microservice management with Istio Service Mesh (account required)

Reading

Articles, Blogs, Essays

Cloud DSL: A Language for Supporting Cloud Portability by Describing Cloud Entities: "Different cloud platforms offer similar services with different characteristics, names, and functionalities. Therefore, describing cloud platform entities in such a way that they can be mapped to each other is critical to enable a smooth migration across platforms. In this paper, we present a DSL that uses a common cloud vocabulary for describing cloud entities covering a wide variety of cloud IaaS services. Through analysis of existing cloud DSLs, we advocate that our cloud DSL is more expressive for the purpose of describing different cloud IaaS services. In addition, when used along with TOSCA, our preliminary analysis suggests that our Cloud DSL significantly reduces the workload of creating cloud descriptions in a TOSCA specification.

Parse Server infrastructure providers

Clever Cloud: Clever Cloud is a Europe-based PaaS company with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing and an integration with Github for app deployment and hosting. Clever Cloud comes with a Node.js runtime and a native MongoDB add-on to run Parse.
IBM Bluemix: Bluemix is IBM's platform service, built with Cloud Foundry and running on IBM SoftLayer. It supports the Node.js runtime required for Parse Server. Bluemix also comes with many database options, including MongoDB from IBM's Compose.io acquisition. Link includes migration instructions.
Nitrous: Nitrous is a cloud-based code editor with collaboration, one-click installs and snapshots.
ObjectRocket: ObjectRocket is a leading MongoDB-as-a-service provider specializing in extremely fast performance and friendly expertise. ObjectRocket offers Parse migration-specific support and also has direct connections to AWS, if you want your app tier to live there.
RAX: Cloud provider with support for it's own cloud, aws and azure. Supports running Node.js in both VMs and docker containers.
Triton: Joyent's elastic container infrastructure backed by bare metal. It allows you to run Node.js apps and Mongo and provide a lot of tools for production debugging of Node.js apps.

Detail Pages:

"Serverless" The serverless architecture, usually implying smaller atoms of functionality executing on cloud servers.
Accengage European leader in Push Notification Technology for mobile apps & websites.
Act Run your GitHub actions locally.
Adaptable GitHub-based cloud deployment.
Affine A workspace with fully merged docs, whiteboards and databases.
Amazon Cloud Development Kit (CDK) An open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation.
Amazon Dynamo A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB lets you offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database so that you don't have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling.
Amazon S3 (and Glacier) Storage for the internet.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Huge collection of cloud-hosted services.
Ampt Helps teams build, scale, and manage JavaScript apps on AWS by automatically configuring and optimizing cloud environments.
Apache.org The Apache site is a collection of numerous open-source projects, in all stages of life (incubating, maintained, archived).
Appboy Customer relationship suite for mobile marketers.
appery.io A low-code tool for building presentation tiers.
AppFlowy AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data; open source Notion alternative.
AppHarbor A fully hosted .NET Platform as a Service.
Appzio Develop native apps just from backend; complete low-code platform for native app development.
Article: A Raspberry Pi and a hard drive built me a media library no company can take away Your own media library starts with surprisingly little: a Raspberry Pi, an external hard drive, and open-source software are all you need
Article: I built a private cloud workspace at home, and it was easier than I expected KASM Workspaces is a browser-based desktop I could install on my own server that allowed me to run disposable and persistent desktops, or just individual apps, for free, from anywhere.
Article: My dusty Raspberry Pi became a personal cloud after one install Why an older Pi makes a surprisingly capable Nextcloud server for personal use
Authelia An open-source authentication and authorization server and portal fulfilling the identity and access management (IAM) role of information security in providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal.
Authgear Open source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase alternative with passkeys, SSO, MFA, passwordless, biometric login; self-hosted or cloud, enterprise-ready for SaaS & mobile apps.
Awesome (lists) (Project Awesome) A curated collection of lists.
AWS Cookbook Code repositories for the the book, "AWS Cookbook".
Azure Huge collection of cloud services.
Azure DevOps A collection of Azure tools for managing software development pipelines.
Azure Messaging A collection of Azure messaging-related links.
Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) All-in-One Local Development Tool For Azure Static Web Apps.
Bicep A domain-specific language (DSL) that uses declarative syntax to deploy Azure resources.
Bitmappery Photoshop in the browser.
BookLore A self-hosted web app for organizing and managing your personal book collection.
BoxyHQ Security building blocks for developers.
Breeze (BreezeJS, Breeze#) Rich data for Javascript apps.
Cadl A language for describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages, client and service code, documentation, and other assets.
Cal Scheduling infrastructure for everyone.
Cerbos Authorization as a service (or library), decoupled from actual code.
Choreo Low-code cloud native engineering for API developers. Engineer in low-code and pro-code simultaneously.
Clickvote Upvotes, links, and reviews.
Cloud Adoption Patterns Collection of patterns for adopting cloud.
Cloudboost Cloud platform for your app; similar to Parse + Firebase + Algolia + Iron.io all combined into one.
Cloud Design Patterns A pattern catalog from Microsoft about how to architect cloud applications.
Cloudflare Cloud platform.
CloudFoundry An open source project with an open contribution and open governance model that gives users maximum flexibility to avoid vendor lock-in.
CloudMorph Decentralize and self-host cloud gaming/application.
CockroachDB A prime example of NewSQL with ACID guarantee of SQL and the scale of NoSQL. CockroachDB is open source and freely available for cloud-native and hybrid deployments. SQL. Geo-location of data. Horizonatal Scale. ACID transactions.
Codebase Navigator An AI-powered tool for exploring and understanding GitHub repositories.
Codeberg A non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.
Convox Deploy, scale, and manage your applications with ease on a Kubernetes-based open source platform.
CosmosDB Microsoft's proprietary globally-distributed, multi-model database service "for managing data at planet-scale" launched in May 2017. It is schema-agnostic, horizontally scalable and generally classified as a NoSQL database.
Dagger An open-source runtime for composable workflows.
Daytona A self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.
Deepwiki Think Deep Research for GitHub: provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for every repo in the world.
Digital Ocean A developer cloud platform.
Disqus Cloud-based discussion/threads system suitable for use by any static HTML-based site.
Docker Hosting Providers A collection of links and notes on cloud services that can host a Docker image for execution.
Docmost An open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software, as in an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.
Dub Open-source link management infrastructure.
Ecstasy (XTC) An object-ish language designed to be cloud native from the ground up.
EngineYard Easy Ruby on Rails deployment to AWS
Ente Safe home for your photos, end-to-end encrypted, cross-platform, open-source.
Entire Hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push; sessions are indexed alongside commits, a searchable record of how code was written.
exe.dev A subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss.
Farmer F-sharp bindings to Azure management APIs?
FaunaDB A global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness and scale.
Firebase A (pseudo)real-time NoSQL that also has platform capabilities.
Firecrawl The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.
Flagsmith Open source, fully featured, Feature Flag and Remote Config service.
FlowFuse An open-source, industrial data platform that enables engineers to build, manage, scale, and secure their Node-RED solutions.
Fly (Fly.io) Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required.
Forem An open source platform for building modern, independent, and safe communities.
Forgejo Open-source cloud repository tool platform built around Git.
Formbricks Experience Management Suite built on the largest open source survey stack worldwide.
Free Programming Books A collection of free learning resources (books).
FreeToken Brings datacenter-scale model serving to your desktop. Run massive models locally, fast and efficiently.
Fusionauth Auth-n-auth service.
gh (Github CLI) The official GitHub CLI tool.
gh (Github CLI) command reference Output from the "gh reference" command (on 8 April 2022).
Github Popular open-source cloud repository built around Git.
Github Actions Server-side pipeline execution on the GitHub platform.
GitHub Apps Applications for execution as part of a GitHub pipeline.
GitHub Tools A collection of Git/GitHub-flavored tools.
Gluey Define your pipeline in a .gflow file. Validate, run, and manage from one CLI.
Google AI Studio Google's Gemini-powered answer engine website.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Huge collection of cloud services.
Hale A concurrent systems language with a model-checked, GC-free runtime — typed message-bus concurrency, data-race-free by design.
Helidon A cloud-native, open‑source Java framework for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Java virtual threads.
Heroku Cloud host, owned by Salesforce, offering developer-friendly cloud deployment.
Hetzner A cloud provider offering a mix of traditional hosting and cloud.
HugeMX Reliable, secure email hosting with pristine IP reputation and enterprise-grade spam filtering.
Huginn Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. (Similar to IFTTT.)
IllaCloud A low-code platform for developers to build internal tools in minutes.
Kalix Removes the hurdles of distributed data, distributed systems and all underlying architecture complexity.
KASM Stream your workspace directly to your web browser on any device and from any location.
Kii An MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) and an IoT (Internet of Things) cloud platform--a cloud service that provides various server-side functions as versatile APIs for mobile apps and IoT solutions.
Klotho Applies static analysis to create an adaptive architecture based on in-code annotations it introduces. It also produces the files needed to deploy, run and operate the application in your cloud of choice.
Kudu The engine behind git/hg deployments, WebJobs, and various other features in Azure Web Sites.
Kumulos Secure, easy to use mobile app messaging & management platform
Launchrock A launch site in minutes to capture early users and supercharge your marketing.
Localstack Develop and test your AWS applications locally to reduce development time and increase product velocity.
MacMiniVault Provides Mac cloud hosting services from a single dedicated Mac mini to an entire cabinet, we have the capacity to support your infrastructure.
MacStadium Modern app development solutions for iOS, macOS, and all Apple platforms in a secure private cloud.
MailChimp Email/marketing platform.
Mastodon Free, open-source decentralized social media platform.
MediaCloud An open-source platform for media analysis.
Meilisearch One platform to build, scale, and unify search and AI retrieval.
Netlify JAMstack-focused cloud platform.
NextcloudPi A free, open-source appliance that packages Nextcloud with a preconfigured web server, database, and management tools, making it easy to deploy a personal cloud on a Raspberry Pi or other low-power hardware.
Nitric A framework for cloud and serverless apps.
NodeChef The best platform for hosting cloud-native web and mobile apps
Noteself Your personal, private, customizable, Evernote-like experience.
Notion Summarise notes, generate content, answer questions about stored information, and assist with document creation.
Ockam A suite of open source tools, programming libraries, and managed cloud services to orchestrate end-to-end encryption, mutual authentication, key management, credential management, and authorization policy enforcement – at massive scale.
OpenCloud Self-hosted file sharing.
Open Container Initiative (OCI) An open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.
OpenStack A set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
OpenTelemetry High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability.
OpenTofu A fork of Terraform.
Outline Knowledge base for growing teams--beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
Outline An open source collaborative knowledge base for modern teams.
Pairdrop Transfer Files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.
PhotoPrism An AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web that makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
Pipedream Pipedream is an integration platform for developers.
Proxmox Run your own container host directly on bare metal hardware.
PubNub Cloud platform for realtime message broadcast/consumption.
Quix An end-to-end framework for real-time Python data engineering, operational analytics and machine learning on Apache Kafka data streams.
RapidAPI World’s largest API marketplace.
RedHat Cloud Services RedHat's entry into the cloud-hosting services game.
Render Static site, web service, private service, workflow, etc, hosting from Git repos.
Replit Build software collaboratively from anywhere in the world, on any device, without spending a second on setup.
Rocks (Ubuntu) Ubuntu-based container images that meet the security, stability, and reliability requirements of cloud-native software.
RustDesk The Fast Open-Source Remote Access and Support Software. Switch from TeamViewer, AnyDesk, and Splashtop to RustDesk for a secure and reliable remote desktop experience with your own self-hosted servers.
Sashido Build global serverless apps faster with scalable NodeJS JSON Rest & GraphQL API, easy to use CMS CRUD, Object and File storage, built-in CDN, User Management, Relations, Push Notifications, System Emails, Cloud functions & Jobs, Real-time messages, and more out of the box.
SearXng A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 247 search services.
Sevalla Heroku alternative.
Shiori
Sunshine (and Moonlight) A self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
Superblocks A programmable IDE for developers to build any internal app, workflow, or scheduled job.
Supertokens Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito.
Swirl Open-source software that uses AI to simultaneously search multiple content and data sources, finds the best results using a reader LLM, then prompts Generative AI, enabling you to get answers from your own data.
Syncano A development platform for building more, faster by leveraging existing backend code.
Tangled A new social-enabled git collaboration platform built on atproto.
Temporal A developer-first, open source platform that ensures the successful execution of services and applications (using workflows).
Transkriptor Transcribe audio to text.
Vercel.com Static and JAMstack deployment workflow/infrastructure.
Vonage (Developer) Integrate sms, voice, video and two-factor authentication into your apps with Vonage communication APIs.
VSync A new option for cloud computing that can enable reliable, secure replication of data even in the highly elastic first-tier of the cloud.
Vultr Deploy high performance cloud servers, cloud GPUs, bare metal, and cloud storage worldwide.
Webscript.io Webscripts are short scripts, written in Lua, that run on our servers. They can respond to HTTP requests or run as cron jobs.
Whisper Transcribe audio to text.
Wing A cloud-oriented programming language that elevates the developer experience by combining infrastructure and runtime code, minimizing the complexity of the cloud.
Zep A context engineering platform that systematically assembles personalized context—user preferences, traits, and business data—for reliable agent applications.

Last modified 03 November 2026