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DigitalOcean is a global cloud infrastructure provider with industry-low bandwidth pricing, and with generous quotas and add-on transfer at just $.01/GiB. With DigitalOcean you can run infrastructure near your customers and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple servers. DigitalOcean is loved by developers and business across the globe, and is currently the third-largest hosting company for web-facing applications.

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) built especially for applications developers. When Heroku first launched in 2007 it was a platform dedicated to deploy and host Ruby applications. Today the offering has broadened and allows developers to launch applications for most languages, frameworks and technologies in a matter of minutes with the help of Heroku Buildpacks. There are currently over 5,400 Heroku Buildpacks in the Heroku Elements Marketplace, that can be used by developers to speed up deployment and saftley host their applications online.

With DigitalOcean App Platform you can build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully managed solution. Deploy code by simply pointing to a GitHub repo and let App Platform do the heavy lifting of managing the infrastructure, app runtimes and dependencies. 

OpenFaaS makes it simple to deploy both functions and existing code to Kubernetes. With OpenFaaS developers can deploy their applications and serveless functions to their very own scalable, fault-tolerant event-driven serverless platform powered by Docker and Kubernetes.

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for cloud computing provided by Google. All applications hosted with Google App Engine is housed and managed in the same data centers that Google use for their product line. Google App Engine sandbox each individual instance and run them across multiple servers to achieve maximum uptime and fault tolerance.