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E2B vs Modal vs Daytona in 2026: What Agent Sandboxes Get Right That Agent-Operated Deploys Still Don't
E2B and Daytona charge $0.0504/vCPU-hour for agent sandboxes while Modal charges about 40% more — but none of them hands an agent a persistent HTTPS URL with a custom domain, TLS, and rollback. A 2026 three-way comparison plus the deploy gap a PaaS still has to close.
Should You Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? Where the Single-Host Ceiling Actually Sits
A May 2026 Hacker News thread's verdict on Docker Compose in production, turned into a three-gap accounting: which of zero-downtime deploys, self-healing, and multi-host have cheap single-host fixes, where the real ceiling sits, and what a Cluster-API-managed fleet closes.
Depot Raised $10M to Kill Slow Builds: What It Still Sells a Team That Owns Its Machines
Depot's $10M Series A and Depot CI launch, priced head-to-head against owned Hetzner builders: a breakeven table across build volumes, what the meter still buys, and the one spiky workload where metered wins.
Buildpacks Is Cutting Kaniko Out of Your git-push Pipeline
Cloud Native Buildpacks compiles kaniko's executor into the lifecycle binary behind every git-push build — and the plan to cut it out runs through a fork-hop, grype reachability triage, and a separate extender binary. What the extraction means for your builder's CVE surface and provenance story.
Baseten Buys Blaxel: What Sandbox-Vendor M&A Means for Your Portability Plan (and the Self-Hosted Math)
Baseten's September 2026 acquisition of Blaxel turns vendor-specific sandbox behavior into migration risk. A five-point portability checklist plus rent-vs-own math: $0.17/hr rented vs ~$0.009/sandbox-hour on a $50/mo Hetzner box.
ARC 0.14.0: Ephemeral Tenant CI on Your Own Fleet, Without the Scale-Set Sprawl
ARC 0.14.0 adds multilabel runner scale sets, stale-config protection, and a standalone Go client — a walkthrough of running ephemeral per-job tenant CI on a Cluster-API fleet, from Helm install to listener scheduling.
The Single-Box Ceiling, Priced: What a Second Server Costs on Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, and EasyPanel
Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover charge $0 for a second server — EasyPanel's per-server Business tier adds about $910/year on identical hardware. A priced 12-month comparison of the multi-server ceiling, plus what the same box costs on a Cluster API fleet.
Vercel Made Blocked Traffic Free — Here's What That Costs to Build Yourself
Vercel's May 2026 Firewall change made WAF-blocked traffic free on every plan — this post prices each layer of that bundle for a self-hosted fleet and gives the five-item checklist a PaaS control plane must ship to match it.
Stripe's Agentic Provisioning Protocol Puts Railway One CLI Command Away — and Draws the Line Where MCP Stops
Stripe's Agentic Provisioning Protocol takes agents from nothing to a running Railway resource — account, $5 trial, credentials, Postgres — in one CLI flow MCP cannot express. How discovery, authorization, and tokenized payment work under the hood, and a seven-item checklist for the self-hosted equivalent.
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