Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Houston
Build low-cost, scalable & platform-agnostic data pipelines
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Houston launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I'm really proud to share with you my new open source project: Kestra https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra I created a few years ago a successful open source AKHQ project: https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq (renamed from KafkaHQ) which has been adopted by big companies like Best Buy, Pipedrive, BMW, Decathlon and many more. 2300 stars, 120 contributors, 10M docker downloads, much more than I expected. Now let's talk about Kestra, an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform for creating, running, scheduling and monitoring…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · arc.tripl.ai · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Porter Cloud (https://porter.run/porter-cloud) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, but we make it easy for you to migrate to AWS, Azure, or GCP when you're ready. Like Heroku, Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy) and lets you deploy your apps with a few clicks — saving you a lot of time while developing. However, as you probably know, there’s a downside: platforms like this become constraining if and when your app…
2024 · its alternatives →
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2021 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →
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Supercharged GitHub pipelines with observability & insights
2023 · its alternatives →
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Managed RAG pipelines, made easy
2025 · blog.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.* Here’s our repo https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird and website https://pipebird.com/. Pipebird (YC W22) is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products. Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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