Hot Dev

Why am I building Hot Dev? As a backend developer for 25+ years, at almost every company, the backend team ends up cobbling together background utility servers and workers to process items off of queues, handle events coming into the system, run scheduled jobs and other on-demand asynchronous processes. This is more true in recent years because companies are integrating AI services into every part of their systems and workflows. The team is tasked with choosing and building up each of these services from cloud providers (AWS, Google, etc) and integrating them into applications and backend services. These tasks create a lot of development work (i.e., time and money!) spent on managing and monitoring the infrastructure instead of thinking about your problem domain and your business. Hot Dev provides a managed platform for defining and monitoring workflows at the problem-domain level--allowing you to focus on your business needs. In the same way that Vercel runs your web app for you without you having to think about AWS EC2 servers or Kubernetes, Hot Dev runs your backend workflows for you without you having to think about AWS SQS, Kafka, or ECS. Additionally, as a software developer, I care deeply about the Developer Experience and the DevOps Experience. Hot Dev is designed for a simple, streamlined developer experience...where local development matches production, and deploys are a single command: hot deploy