Defang is on a mission to offer the easiest way to develop, deploy, and debug cloud apps

Defang — the only Vancouver company accepted into the 2024 Google for Startups Accelerator — is aiming to make it “radically simpler” to develop, deploy, and debug cloud applications.

Typically, the process can take days or weeks, especially for beginner developers, as it requires configuring many different services — like compute, storage, networking, security, and logging — with the right security, permission, auto-scaling, and other settings after writing the code. While there have been attempts by other companies to streamline the process, the solutions have come with tradeoffs, the company told the Vancouver Tech Journal. Developers are often constrained to running their applications on a specific cloud platform or relying on a layer that becomes more complex, as say, the product evolves.