694 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
CNCF's 2026 Platform Engineering Report Says 35% of Teams Bolt AI Onto What They Already Have — Is 'AI-Native From Day One' the Wrong Pitch?
The report's 35% hybrid-platform stat looks like a case against AI-native architecture. Priced out against what hybrid actually costs in auth, golden paths, and governance, it reads the opposite way.
Coolify Fixed 11 Critical CVEs in January. The Same Root Cause Struck Again in July
Coolify patched 11 critical CVEs at CVSS 9.4-10.0 in January 2026, then shipped a fix for the same root-cause bug class in July. Here's what the repeat says about single-daemon PaaS architecture versus RBAC-scoped, Kubernetes-native control planes.
Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover Hit a Docker Swarm Ceiling
Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover get a solo developer to a running app fast — but a side-by-side of node failure recovery, storage, and tenant isolation shows exactly where their shared Docker Swarm architecture caps out, and when a Cluster API-provisioned fleet is worth the switch.
Kubernetes Can Checkpoint Your Containers Now — It Still Can't Restore Them
Kubernetes can freeze a running container to disk today. It cannot restore one natively. A capability matrix, the GPU and security gaps behind it, and what sandbox vendors built instead while they waited.
Crossplane's API-First Infrastructure Bet: What Agent-Operated Infra via Declarative CRDs Gets Right That a REST Deploy API Doesn't
CNCF's case for Crossplane says AI agents operate better against Kubernetes-style CRDs than a REST deploy API. Here's the mechanism-by-mechanism reason why, what the tradeoff actually costs, and what a Render-compatible API should borrow from it.
Daytona's Customer-Managed Compute: What 'Bring Your Own Hetzner Account' Actually Costs and Controls
Daytona lets you point its control plane at your own cloud account instead of theirs. Here's what that customer-managed compute tier still costs, still controls, and where it's a genuine middle ground versus renting trust.
Dear Friend, You Have Built a Kubernetes: Why HN Keeps Resurfacing This Essay
A 2024 satirical essay about hand-rolling a worse Kubernetes hit Hacker News again in 2026. Lined up against a real 2025 postmortem, the argument turns out to be a sharper pitch for owning Cluster API than any feature list — with the honest caveat about when it doesn't apply.
Deno Deploy Classic Shuts Down July 20, 2026 — and Takes Subhosting v1 With It
Deploy Classic and Subhosting's v1 API both die July 20, 2026 — the exact migration checklist, what Subhosting's isolation model actually took to build, and why letting a tenant resell tenants is a scope-creep trap for most git-push PaaS platforms.
Devin Retired Its Pricing Unit for Everyone Except the Customers Who Actually Negotiate
Cognition quietly killed Devin's ACU billing for every self-serve customer in April 2026, keeping the unit only for Enterprise contracts — a concrete lesson for how a platform should meter AI-agent-driven work instead of inventing a new billing currency.