Divio

Heroku has been a go-to platform for years. For many teams, it was the easiest way to get an app online. But as projects grow, so do the expectations around flexibility, visibility, and control. If you’re starting to think about what comes next, we put together a guide on what moving away from Heroku actually looks like in practice and what to expect when switching to Divio. 👉 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/eQuYEdZ7

📊 Divio Q1 2026: Strong Execution, Clear Direction This quarter, we continued to execute on our strategy and strengthen the foundation for what’s next. Quarter highlights: 💸 Professional services revenue increased by 25% 🚀 Continued traction with our agency strategy, adding new projects and expanding platform usage 🛠️ Ongoing platform improvements under new technical leadership, with a focus on usability, pricing clarity, and compatibility More agencies are joining, project activity is increasing, and early engagements are growing into larger opportunities. Next focus: execution. Scaling what’s working and turning this traction into steady growth. 🔗 Read the full Q1 report: https://lnkd.in/ecdxuABh

You can feel the difference between support that exists and support that actually helps. This is what we aim for.

What happens when a development team stops fighting their hosting setup? For Pixel Actions, the difference was significant. Before switching to Divio, a lot of time was going into infrastructure work: managing servers, fixing environments, maintaining scripts, and troubleshooting deployments just to keep Django projects running smoothly. Once that complexity disappeared, the team could focus fully on building and delivering for their clients. The impact: - Infrastructure costs dropped from $75,000 to $24,000 per year - 68% reduction in annual costs - 351 hours saved every month - 117 applications now managed on the platform - 30% efficiency increase More importantly, they’re now able to take on larger and more demanding projects without growing the team.

Wrapping up a few great days at DjangoCon Europe 🇬🇷 It’s been a packed schedule of talks, conversations, and meeting people from across the Django community. A few highlights from our side: We enjoyed the keynote on agentic coding by Marlene Mhangami. A practical look at how AI agents are starting to fit into real development workflows. Carlton Gibson’s talk on static islands and dynamic architectures was another standout. Nice to see observability getting more attention with Laís Carvalho's session on debugging Django apps beyond print(). A strong reminder that having the right signals in place makes debugging faster and far less guesswork. Also, a big thank you to Paolo Melchiorre for bringing people together for dinner mid-week. Always nice to step away from the talks and have more informal conversations. Great to have Joel Burch, Valentinos Evripidou and Mariusz Felisiak there. Overall, a lot of good discussions, new ideas, and familiar faces. Until next time 👋

We’ll be at DjangoCon Europe this week 🇬🇷 From April 15–17, the Django community is gathering in Athens, and a few of us from the team will be there as well. Looking forward to a few days of talks, meeting people, and good conversations around Django and the work people are building with it. If you’re attending, feel free to reach out or come say hi 👋 Joel Burch Valentinos Evripidou and Mariusz Felisiak will be around. More to come once we’re there.

Last week’s team meeting didn’t involve slides. We had Nonna teaching us how to make "Gnocchi alla Sorrentina" instead 🍝 Things got messy along the way. Flour and tomato sauce ended up too close to laptops, which wasn’t exactly planned. Some had family joining in, and we even got a quick surprise hello from a colleague currently on a sabbatical somewhere around the world 🌍 In the end, it all came together and the gnocchi were really good. Hard to go back to normal meetings after this.

🔒 Upcoming Security Update on Search Domains To keep our platform secure and aligned with AWS standards, we’re updating all managed Elasticsearch and OpenSearch domains. 📅 April 13, 2026 We will enforce: • HTTPS for all connections • Minimum TLS version 1.2 This change improves security and ensures your applications run on supported standards. No downtime is expected, but we recommend verifying that your applications: ✔ use https:// ✔ support TLS 1.2 If you need help validating your setup, our team is here to help. 👉 Full details: https://lnkd.in/eHW-BPZg This update applies to all customers, including Enterprise Cloud and Open Cloud.

🚀 Platform upgrades coming to Divio in 2026 To improve performance, security, and long-term compatibility, we’re upgrading several core services across the platform this year. What’s changing: 🗄 May–June: Database upgrades MySQL 8.0 -> 8.4 and PostgreSQL 15 -> 18 🔎 September: Search revamp Migration from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch ✉️ October: Messaging upgrade RabbitMQ 3.X → 4.X Most updates will be handled automatically, but we recommend reviewing compatibility ahead of the migration windows. If you have questions or want to plan ahead for these changes, feel free to reach out to our team. We’re happy to help. 👉 Full details in the blog post: https://lnkd.in/eKbphB-F

Excited to be part of DjangoCon Europe this year as a Silver Sponsor! Looking forward to meeting the Django community and connecting with developers and agencies building amazing things. If you’re attending, come say hello 👋 You'll find Joel Burch, Valentinos Evripidou and Mariusz Felisiak from our team there.