It's good to see DigitalOcean picking up some pace in improving products. The App platform was a decent product when they first announced it but then they just stopped improving it and it has falling way behind other providers.<p>They need to rebuild the app platform using Firecracker VMs. The build time on App Platform tends to be a lot longer and the performance is worst that most other platforms built on top of Firecracker like Fly, Koyeb, and AWS Fargate.<p>They also need a better CLI tool for deploying. They should fork/copy FlyCtl rename it Ship and make it work with App Spec and add in the DigitalOcean features.<p>They also need to make it easier to integrate with their other products like Spaces, and Managed Databases.<p>If they make these changes, App Platform would probably be the best place to host an application for any startup/dev.<p>I still use DO for Database and Spaces because they offer the best price for performance but hosting apps I have to go else where because the performance, ease of use, and developer experience isn't as good as Fly, or Koyeb.<p>Hopefully someone at DO looks at this and write these down. I bet if they ask a lot of their customers they would agree these are good changes.