9x faster than express is a bold claim, would be interesting to see how it holds up with real application logic and some real benchmarks/usecases.

Part of the selling point of terraform is that I can easily switch clouds if I need to. That's only partially true, most of your terraform would need to change to move from e.g. AWS to GCP, but still, your (hard-fought) experience with terraform on one platform will help when moving to another. If I define my infra the encore way, will I be locked in to one cloud, or can I easily migrate if I need to? Furthermore, I only see Go and Typescript, do you have a roadmap for supporting more languages?

the type-safe infrastructure primitives are interesting, curious how it compares to something like effect or nestjs for actual production use

Have been watching Encore for a while, excited about prospects of it in other languages like Python!

Happy Encore customer here! I’m kind of surprised they haven’t gotten more attention. It’s like the DX of Vercel for backend and infra, but open source and you can connect it to your existing cloud provider (we use GCP, but also works with AWS). We rarely have to think about about infra or CI/CD things. It just works, and on the rare occasion it doesn’t the team has been super quick to resolve it.

It’s like having a in-house 24/7 dev ops infra team but for a fraction of the cost!

Disclaimer: Our infrastructure needs are not super complex: Web services, SQL, key-value store, pub-sub and few other parts, your mileage may vary depending on your needs.

How does Encore handle the following scenarios?

1. I want to deploy to a testing environment where I may want to use different users, different sized services, or even mock services so I don't have to pay for them? 2. I want to develop in an isolated environment (maybe without internet or simply I'm trying to develop a narrow feature that doesn't require the rest of the infrastructure)? 3. How does it handle security elements like VPCs, IAM roles, all these things that are the context my application runs in that I don't necessarily want to couple to my application code?

Curious about how this compares to alchemy - https://alchemy.run/

How does it compare with SST?