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The Upsun Developer Center contains many articles and discussions across the Upsun, Platorm.sh, and Blackfire.io ecosystem. You can narrow down what you’re looking for via search or by using the categories in the sidebar and the descriptions below.

• Comparisons:

  Better understand how Upsun stacks up against other Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers, infrastructure, DevOps, and observability tools.

• Discussions:

  These “understanding-oriented” articles look to take a deep dive into Upsun features and their philosophy, as well as those tools and features outside of Upsun that influence our work here. The Divio documentation system highlights explanation content types as content intended to “clarify and illuminate a particular topic”.

• Experiments:

  Experiment articles do not satisfy solely learning-oriented (Tutorial) or even goal-oriented (How-to guides) objectives, while you may take the time to replicate them. Experiment posts are meant instead to explore hyper-specific integrations and use cases to test the limits of frameworks and tools – or even to highlight shortcomings and headaches author’s faced – perhaps to spark your own experiments.

• How Upsun works:

  Rather than focusing on how you as a user works with Upsun, “How Upsun works” articles try to provide some behind-the-scenes context to the engineering challenges that go into Upsun the Software Project. These articles may provide a better understanding of why certain rules exist in userland, while others will (hopefully) provide some appreciation for our engineering and operations teams.

• How-to guides:

  How-to guides provide one of the four major pillars of effective documentation. With these “goal-oriented” articles there is one objective – to take you, the user, from some beginning experience with Upsun to now solve a specific problem.

• Releases:

  All articles related to the release of features and products from Upsun, or on the Developer Center, can be found here.

• Transcripts:

  Videos on the Developer Center – demos, talks, livestreams, and more – need transcripts. Here they be.

• Tutorials:

  One of the foundational components of effective documentation, tutorial articles provide “learning-oriented” guidance in your first days working with Upsun. It’s here that you’ll find help in deploying a framework to Upsun for the first time. Even if it isn’t the particular application you’re trying to deploy into production long term, going through those steps are fundamental to understanding the basic rules of Upsun.

• Use cases:

  What can you build on Upsun? These articles are meant to share either real user experiences working with Upsun in production, or observations made by our team about effective use cases they’ve seen over the years.