68 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Earthly Shut Down a Year Ago. Here's What Betting on a VC-Funded Build Tool Actually Costs
Earthly raised $8.6M, hit 12,000 GitHub stars, then shut down its cloud and open-source project within a year. A dated retrospective on what the arranged migration to Dagger actually cost users, and why picking commodity build specs over single-vendor DSLs is the real fix.
Heroku Retired Its Data Bridge Add-On. The 'Smooth' Migration Path Is the Real Warning.
Salesforce retired Heroku Data Bridge and even offered a migration path — but the path was entirely Salesforce's to design, schedule, and re-bill. Here's why a vendor-provided replacement still isn't the same as not being locked in, and a five-question framework for auditing your own bundled PaaS integrations before the next one hits.
Ingress-NGINX Is Already Retired: An Ingress2Gateway Migration Walkthrough for Self-Hosted Clusters
Ingress-NGINX's retirement isn't a future deadline — it happened in March 2026, and unpatched clusters have been exposed for months since. A concrete ingress2gateway walkthrough against a real annotation set shows exactly what converts automatically and what needs a hand pass.
Render, Railway, and Fly.io's Hiring Pages: Reading Job Counts Before You Migrate
Render lists 40 open roles, Railway 6, Fly.io zero. A framework for reading a hosted PaaS vendor's own careers page and product changelog as a leading indicator before you commit to it — or migrate off it.
Railway's Free Tier Never Came Back: What a One-Time $5 Trial Credit Actually Buys a New Team in 2026
Railway's one-time $5 trial credit sounds generous until you run the actual per-minute billing math — here's exactly how many days it lasts for a real web app plus database, and what the same workload costs on an owned Hetzner box instead.
Railway's Reliability Problem: Five Incidents Since November 2025, and What an Outage Actually Costs a Migrating Team
Railway has logged five platform incidents since November 2025, including an 8-hour GCP account suspension. A worked cost model — SLA credits, hot-standby insurance, and the actual incident bill — for a team deciding whether to migrate.
The Heroku Buildpack Compatibility Myth: What Render's 'Zero-Config Migration' Actually Runs On
Render's 'Heroku buildpack support' is Cloud Native Buildpacks auto-detection, not the literal bin/detect/compile/release scripts your Heroku app runs today — here's the real API gap and what closing it actually takes.
Firebase Studio Is Shutting Down. Here's What 'Export My Code' Actually Means Across Every Vibe-Coding Platform
Firebase Studio dies for good on March 22, 2027. Its own migration docs reveal exactly what exports cleanly and what doesn't — and the same checklist exposes how much of Bolt.new, Lovable, Replit, and Base44's output is actually yours to keep.
Gateway API v1.6 Graduates UDPRoute to GA: What It Actually Takes to Route Non-HTTP Traffic on a Self-Hosted PaaS
Gateway API v1.6 made UDPRoute GA, but controller support is uneven, there's an upgrade-order trap that drops traffic, and UDPRoute still can't multiplex tenants on one port the way HTTPRoute does. Here's what actually changes, with a working example.