Deployment on a VPS
Deploying to your own VPS with Coolify gives you more control and avoids the cold start limitations of free PaaS tiers.
Observability
Observability is about understanding your application in production through tracing, logs, and metrics without adding print statements and redeploying.
GitHub Dependabot and CodeQL
GitHub provides two free tools that handle dependency updates and security scanning automatically with zero ongoing effort once configured.