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Your 2 TB Backup Bill: $14 or $65? What Hetzner Object Storage Changes About Tenant Backups
Worked numbers at 500 GB, 2 TB, and 10 TB show Hetzner Object Storage and Backblaze B2 running tenant snapshots, build artifacts, and database dumps at roughly a fifth of AWS S3 — plus what same-provider restores buy on the worst night of the year.
The Heroku-to-Kubernetes Discount Is Real. Here's Which Line Item Pays for It.
The same stack priced on Heroku, cloud Kubernetes, and owned Hetzner hardware across three workload sizes shows the 52-68% migration discount is real — and Postgres and Redis markup, not compute, pays for most of it.
Heroku Fir Doesn't Take Docker: The Migration Audit for Teams Stranded Between Cedar and Fir
Heroku's Fir generation doesn't support Docker deploys and Cedar is frozen under sustaining engineering. A five-point audit for heroku.yml teams: what breaks, where container workloads go, and the real bill delta.
Helm 3 Expires February 2027: A Fleet Operator's Migration Playbook for the Helm 4 Era
Helm 3's final release shipped September 9, 2026, and security patches end February 10, 2027. What server-side apply changes for GitOps fleets, what breaks in pipelines and charts, and the six-step checklist for moving to Helm 4 before the deadline.
The GPU Isolation Fault Line: gVisor, Kata, and Edera Face Off Over Your Sandbox Pool
gVisor proxies CUDA calls, Kata hands the whole GPU to a VM, and Edera isolates tenants behind a hypervisor while sharing the card — what each model costs a self-hosted sandbox fleet in blast radius versus throughput, and which one to default to.
Your Agent Wants Deploy Access. GitHub Just Showed What to Ask For First.
GitHub's Copilot app went GA with per-write permission prompts as the default and autopilot as the opt-in. What that validates about gating agent deploy, rollback, and scale calls — plus the 4-rung ladder and earned-autopilot path.
GitHub Cut Hosted-Runner Prices 39%. Here Is the New Breakeven for Owning Your CI Runners
GitHub cut hosted-runner prices up to 39% in January 2026 while a proposed per-minute charge on self-hosted runners was shelved. Pricing both sides of CI — hosted meter versus an owned box running Tekton — puts the breakeven near 3,000 metered minutes a month.
Gateway API v1.5 Is the Green Light for Day-One PaaS Routing — With Three Exceptions
Gateway API v1.5 moved ListenerSet, TLSRoute, and four more features to the stable channel. A verdict for platform teams: new clusters can build custom-domain and TLS routing on it today, with exactly three workloads that should wait.
Your Region No Longer Exists: What Fly.io Deleting 17 Regions Teaches About Cloud Lock-In
Fly.io retired 17 of its 35 regions in September 2025, forcing tenants in cities from Santiago to Hong Kong to move. A region-by-region accounting of what the forced migration cost — and why 'the vendor can delete your region' belongs on every platform exit checklist.
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