From npm create vite to a live HTTPS address, then an update that goes live on git push. No build settings to fill in.
Create a React app with Vite, push it to GitHub and deploy it on Light Cloud's free plan: detected automatically, built in 15 seconds, updated on every git push.
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Install the Light Cloud MCP server in Claude Code with one command, ask it to deploy a folder, and get a live URL. A real session with screenshots: deploy, redeploy, password.
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Three minutes, no laptop, and a long drive still in my legs. I pitched the platform at KitchenPitch, FreshMango's pitch day, and left out the best thing we are building. Here is why that was the right call, what the mentors fixed afterwards, and the part where I did not recognize the accelerator CEO.
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GAIA-X, EuroStack, and now a 180-million-euro sovereign tender with Google inside the tent. Europe keeps trying to build a thing when what it lacks is a property, and the property is portability.
Terraform went BSL in 2023, the community forked it, and IBM bought the company anyway. The lesson isn't that HashiCorp was villainous. It's that a license is a contract one side can rewrite, and your infrastructure planning has to price that.
Trace a request through two Light Cloud services with a shared x-request-id, write JSON logs with a severity field, and use the Logs tab's search and level filter to find failures fast.
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Use Light Cloud branch environments to preview a change across three services, merge it into production, and roll back a bad deploy in 13 seconds without a rebuild.
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AT&T told a court it was facing a 1,050% price increase. CISPE members reported hikes up to 1,500%. Broadcom's VMware playbook wasn't a scandal; it was a valuation of switching costs, executed precisely, and it predicts the next consolidation wave.
Measure cold starts on Light Cloud with curl, compare scale to zero with an always-on instance, and use real numbers to set timeouts and decide what to keep warm.
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Load test a Light Cloud service with oha, watch it scale from zero to five instances, and learn why concurrency and database connection pools decide how well autoscaling works.
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Hyperscaler capital is stampeding toward AI factories, and the ordinary developer workload, a container, a database, a preview environment, is nobody's priority. That neglect is the opening every developer cloud is built on.
Allow several browser origins with CORS, rotate the secret your services share without dropping a request, and add a timeout between services, step by step on Light Cloud.
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Deploy a React frontend, a Node.js API, a Python FastAPI API and PostgreSQL from one GitHub monorepo on Light Cloud, step by step, with every screen shown.
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