Hosted backend infrastructure-as-a-service
22 companies in this space
Important Developer Trends for 2011
| Rank | Trend | Score | Change | Components | Recent scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Real-time
Real-time data synchronization, event delivery, and streaming are core capabilities for many modern application backends and materially influence platform selection.
|
64.1 | — |
Strategic 72 Adoption 18 · Attention 95 · Momentum 59 |
61 · 64 |
| #2 |
AI Agents
AI agents create sustained demand for hosted compute, data stores, workflow execution, integrations, observability, and scalable application deployment.
|
61.1 | +4 |
Strategic 78 Adoption 9 · Attention 50 · Momentum 100 |
51 · 61 |
| #3 |
Developer Experience
Developer experience directly shapes platform adoption, retention, and developer productivity across hosted backend infrastructure.
|
52.9 | +5 |
Strategic 73 Adoption 9 · Attention 15 · Momentum 100 |
49 · 53 |
| #4 |
LLM
LLM capabilities are increasingly central to application development, influencing demand for AI-ready compute, managed data services, deployment patterns, observability, and integrated backend APIs.
|
52.6 | +3 |
Strategic 78 Adoption 9 · Attention 10 · Momentum 50 |
49 · 53 |
| #5 |
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is foundational to application deployment, scaling, networking, and operations across hosted backend infrastructure.
|
51.7 | -2 |
Strategic 82 Adoption 0 · Attention 0 · Momentum 50 |
52 · 52 |
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Summary
| Company | Total Posts | Avg/Month |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 3,624 | 16.8 |
| Webflow | 1,523 | 8.5 |
| Netlify | 1,163 | 8.1 |
| Google Cloud | 2,794 | 8.0 |
| Supabase | 501 | 6.0 |
| DigitalOcean | 847 | 4.7 |
| Vercel | 627 | 4.4 |
| Convex | 257 | 3.6 |
| Replit | 465 | 3.5 |
| PlanetScale | 348 | 3.2 |
| Firebase | 615 | 3.2 |
| Upsun | 450 | 3.1 |
| Vultr | 478 | 3.1 |
| Inngest | 197 | 2.7 |
| Railway | 213 | 2.5 |
| Render | 224 | 2.1 |
| Harper | 246 | 2.1 |
| Directus | 145 | 1.7 |
| Koyeb | 142 | 1.7 |
| DBOS | 67 | 1.4 |
| Nhost | 86 | 0.8 |
| Azion | 95 | 0.5 |
Current Subscribers
| Company | Subscribers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | 1,450,000 | |
| Firebase | 418,000 | |
| Webflow | 222,000 | |
| Cloudflare | 131,000 | |
| Replit | 127,000 | |
| Vercel | 116,000 | |
| Supabase | 80,900 | |
| DigitalOcean | 60,300 | |
| PlanetScale | 41,400 | |
| Cloudflare | 35,200 | |
| Netlify | 13,900 | |
| Convex | 13,100 | |
| Directus | 8,490 | |
| Vultr | 3,490 | |
| Upsun | 3,020 | |
| Azion | 906 | |
| Inngest | 719 | |
| Nhost | 686 | |
| Harper | 597 | |
| DBOS | 570 |
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Companies in Hosted backend infrastructure-as-a-service
Random Space| Company | Stage | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Azion | A | 2011 |
| Cloudflare | Public | 2009 |
| Convex | B | 2021 |
| DBOS | seed | 2023 |
| DigitalOcean | Public | 2012 |
| Directus | A | 2020 |
| Firebase | acquired | 2011 |
| Google Cloud | Public | 1998 |
| Harper | seed | 2017 |
| Inngest | seed | 2021 |
| Koyeb | acquired | 2020 |
| Netlify | D | 2015 |
| Nhost | seed | 2018 |
| PlanetScale | C | 2018 |
| Railway | B | 2020 |
| Render | C | 2018 |
| Replit | D | 2016 |
| Supabase | F | 2020 |
| Upsun | D | 2015 |
| Vercel | F | 2015 |
| Vultr | D | 2014 |
| Webflow | C | 2012 |