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E2B vs Daytona vs Modal: Picking an Agent Sandbox You Can Self-Host
E2B, Daytona, and Modal now ship as native providers in the OpenAI Agents SDK — but only one is still open-source and self-hostable. A numbers-backed comparison of boot times, isolation tech, GPUs, and licenses, with a build-vs-integrate verdict for self-hosted PaaS roadmaps.
AGENTS.md Has a Neutral Home Now: What the Agentic AI Foundation Means for Deploy Platforms
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block put MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation. Here is what neutral governance for the repo-instructions file means for deploy platforms — plus a copy-pasteable deploy-ready AGENTS.md.
A2A Joins MCP Under One Roof: How to Hand an Ops Agent a Deploy Investigation Without Handing Over Deploy Authority
A2A joining MCP under the Agentic AI Foundation settles which protocol does what: A2A moves the diagnosis between agents, MCP moves capability between an agent and the platform. Here is the handoff design that keeps it that way — a worked deploy-investigation task, a three-tool audited MCP surface, and the identity, approval, and least-privilege invariants mapped to Kubernetes RBAC.
Zerops's $2M Bet: Your Coding Agent Is the PaaS Customer Now
Zerops raised $2M to build a PaaS control plane for AI coding agents. How its ZCP work loop — live state, deploy evidence, behavior proof — compares to Render and Railway, plus a five-item MCP checklist for self-hosted platforms.
What AI Agents Actually Deploy: Vercel's Ship 2026 Numbers and the PaaS Defaults They Break
Vercel's Ship 2026 numbers show agent-triggered deployments passing 50% while AI Gateway tokens grew 10x to 20 trillion a month. What the shift toward inference-calling apps means for PaaS egress, secrets, and metering defaults — and a scorecard for self-hosted platforms.
Green Status Page, Broken Deploy: What Two July 2026 Vercel Incidents Teach About Scoped Failures in Multi-Tenant PaaS
Vercel's July 2026 status history holds two scoped failures — four hours of Hobby-only invocation errors and a six-minute telemetry gap disclosed the next day — with two more recurrences that quarter. What they share structurally, and four incident-communication guarantees a multi-tenant deploy platform should build instead.
The Month-13 Bill: What $500 in Fly.io and Render Startup Credits Really Buys
Fly.io's $500 credit buys 6-12 months and Render's buys a meaningful Pro window — then the full meter starts. A line-by-line pricing of the post-credit bill against flat-rate dedicated hardware, and how to spend credits with an exit planned.
Spotify Portal for Backstage Is GA: The Build-vs-Buy Math for Your Golden Path Just Changed
Spotify Portal for Backstage is GA: onboarding wizards, bundled premium plugins, and an AI assistant in one box. What the DIY cost numbers say, who already switched, and a build-buy-skip verdict for self-hosted platform teams.
From One Box to a Fleet: A Second-Machine Migration Playbook for Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover Teams Moving to Cluster API
Outgrown your single-box PaaS? A phase-by-phase playbook for moving live workloads from Coolify, Dokploy, or CapRover onto a Cluster-API-managed Hetzner fleet — with a stay-or-go checklist, data-migration options, and a weighted DNS cutover that keeps the old box as rollback.
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