283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Heroku Retired Its Data Bridge Add-On. The 'Smooth' Migration Path Is the Real Warning.
Salesforce retired Heroku Data Bridge and even offered a migration path — but the path was entirely Salesforce's to design, schedule, and re-bill. Here's why a vendor-provided replacement still isn't the same as not being locked in, and a five-question framework for auditing your own bundled PaaS integrations before the next one hits.
Ingress-NGINX Is Already Retired: An Ingress2Gateway Migration Walkthrough for Self-Hosted Clusters
Ingress-NGINX's retirement isn't a future deadline — it happened in March 2026, and unpatched clusters have been exposed for months since. A concrete ingress2gateway walkthrough against a real annotation set shows exactly what converts automatically and what needs a hand pass.
Render, Railway, and Fly.io's Hiring Pages: Reading Job Counts Before You Migrate
Render lists 40 open roles, Railway 6, Fly.io zero. A framework for reading a hosted PaaS vendor's own careers page and product changelog as a leading indicator before you commit to it — or migrate off it.
Railway's Free Tier Never Came Back: What a One-Time $5 Trial Credit Actually Buys a New Team in 2026
Railway's one-time $5 trial credit sounds generous until you run the actual per-minute billing math — here's exactly how many days it lasts for a real web app plus database, and what the same workload costs on an owned Hetzner box instead.
Railway's Reliability Problem: Five Incidents Since November 2025, and What an Outage Actually Costs a Migrating Team
Railway has logged five platform incidents since November 2025, including an 8-hour GCP account suspension. A worked cost model — SLA credits, hot-standby insurance, and the actual incident bill — for a team deciding whether to migrate.
The Heroku Buildpack Compatibility Myth: What Render's 'Zero-Config Migration' Actually Runs On
Render's 'Heroku buildpack support' is Cloud Native Buildpacks auto-detection, not the literal bin/detect/compile/release scripts your Heroku app runs today — here's the real API gap and what closing it actually takes.
Firebase Studio Is Shutting Down. Here's What 'Export My Code' Actually Means Across Every Vibe-Coding Platform
Firebase Studio dies for good on March 22, 2027. Its own migration docs reveal exactly what exports cleanly and what doesn't — and the same checklist exposes how much of Bolt.new, Lovable, Replit, and Base44's output is actually yours to keep.
Gateway API v1.6 Graduates UDPRoute to GA: What It Actually Takes to Route Non-HTTP Traffic on a Self-Hosted PaaS
Gateway API v1.6 made UDPRoute GA, but controller support is uneven, there's an upgrade-order trap that drops traffic, and UDPRoute still can't multiplex tenants on one port the way HTTPRoute does. Here's what actually changes, with a working example.
Cluster API's Docker Resources Are Deprecated, Not Removed: The Real CAPD→CAPDev Timeline and What to Migrate Before v1.15
CAPD's DockerCluster/DockerMachine types are deprecated as of Cluster API v1.13.0, not v1.12, and removal is targeted for v1.15 with no committed date. Here's the real timeline, the concrete manifest migration, and what a CAPH-based fleet actually needs to touch.