# orm-help
- c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMright now I use prisma on heroku - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMbut if my site started needing to scale, I would probably take the time to migrate to like DO or something - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMsince its way cheaper - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMyeah thats what I have heard. only worked with lambda personal projects. but yeah just trying to come up with a fun awesome stack haha - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMwith amplify, you are pretty locked in - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMyeah gotcha - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMwhat’s ‘DO’ in this sense ^ - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:14 PMnot that thats bad, you have to do more thinking - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:15 PM*digital ocean - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:15 PMah gotcha - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:15 PMwhich is way cheaper in my experience - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:15 PMthan AWS for sure - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:15 PMsure sure. mostly work with aws for work so that’s all i’m familiar with atm - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:15 PMyea so do I - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:16 PMaws is pretty used in corporate obviously, where they do big contracts and cut their rates - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:16 PMwhen you are paying for it on your own, as I know for exp, its not cheap - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMso in ur case, you can self host apollo server wherever u host ur application? - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMyes - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMapollo-server is just a node app - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMI have a ton of custom logic and background jobs and stuff - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMassociated with it - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:17 PMyou can run it on anything that runs node - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:18 PMprisma is its own containerized thing, I use the heroku service from prisma cloud - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:18 PMhow it works is: prisma creates a graphql API on top of your DB, and you control all your underlying schema with prisma - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:18 PMand then you have yoga(or in my case apollo server) as your actual public facing API - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:19 PMand you can pass data straight through to prisma, for some stuff, or write custom resolves, or manipulate data in your apollo server layer - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:19 PMits like the business layer, prisma is like the DB - p
protzman
02/21/2019, 8:20 PMnice okay that makes sense - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:20 PMbut it interacts really well because since it uses graphql, it goes hand in hand with how you are querying your public API - c
CCBCodeMonkey
02/21/2019, 8:20 PMso like on a lot of stuff, i just take what the user queried and pass it to prisma(as long as its safe to return whats in the DB)