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Heroku to Linode + Kamal in Production: A Real Team's Terraform-Retiring Migration, Step by Step
A production Rails site left Heroku for Linode plus Kamal in three days across four tracked issues, ending with the Heroku provider deleted from Terraform. This walkthrough covers each cutover step, the before/after bill, and what the team's no-fallback decision costs the week DNS flips.
Heroku to AWS in One Command: What Agent-Driven Migration Gets Right — and the Self-Hosted Exit It Skips
Qovery's September 24 webinar promises Heroku-to-AWS migration in one command with an agent doing the work. Here is what agent-driven playbooks automate well, what still needs a human, and why the self-hosted exit never makes the slide deck — plus the three-way cost math.
Gartner Says 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Die by 2027 — the Deploy Target Is the Governance Gap
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027 on cost and weak risk controls. These are the five governance controls — agent identity, audit trails, sandboxed execution, PR gates, and cost guardrails — your deploy target needs before background coding agents touch production.
Fly.io's $0.08/GB Snapshot Bill: The Backup Line Item Your Self-Hosting Math Forgot
Fly.io started charging $0.08/GB for volume snapshots in January 2026. A line-item breakdown of what the backup dimension costs for a typical web-plus-Postgres stack, and how it compares to the same retention on owned disks.
Fly.io Bets $25M on 'Computers for Agents' — and Proves the Self-Hosted Case
Fly.io raised $25M and hired an ex-Docker CEO to build 'computers for agents.' The strategy is right — but the rent-vs-own math shows steady-state agent fleets run cheaper on machines you own.
FerretDB v2 Speaks Mongo on Top of Your Existing CloudNativePG — If Postgres Carries the DocumentDB Extension
FerretDB v2 turns your existing CloudNativePG fleet into a MongoDB-compatible endpoint — but only if Postgres carries Microsoft's DocumentDB extension. The concrete CNPG recipe, what consolidation buys ops, and the verify-before-you-promise checklist.
Equinix Metal Is Dead: Where API-Driven Bare Metal Goes Next, and What the Shutdown Teaches About Provisioning Lock-In
Equinix Metal shut down June 30, 2026, ending the $335M Packet bet. A shutdown-timeline table, a five-door migration map with per-destination network and Cluster API stories, and why a provider API belongs behind an abstraction.
E2B Runs 88% of the Fortune 100's Agent Workloads: What 150ms Firecracker Sandboxes Set as the Bar
E2B's Firecracker microVM sandboxes — 150ms boot, per-second billing, 88% Fortune 100 adoption — define what agent code execution must look like. A concrete five-component spec plus the self-hosted control-plane checklist.
DOKS Turned Every Node Into a Registry Mirror: What P2P Image Pulls Actually Save a Self-Hosted Fleet
DigitalOcean's Spegel-based P2P registry plugin hit GA in September 2026. Measured benchmarks, fleet-size math, and a self-host runbook show what peer-to-peer image pulls save in latency, egress, and rate-limit exposure.
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