1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
GitHub Wobbled Three Separate Times in Eight Days: What Owning No Runner Capacity Costs
Three unrelated GitHub subsystems failed independently within eight days in July 2026. A concrete accounting of what broke, why that's a different risk shape than one outage repeating, and what actually changes when the build step and deploy target run on owned infrastructure instead.
Ingress-NGINX Retired in March 2026 — Here's Exactly What Ingress2Gateway Migrates, and What It Doesn't
Ingress-NGINX officially retired in March 2026. Here's the annotation-by-annotation breakdown of what Ingress2Gateway migrates cleanly to Gateway API, what it can't touch, and why the gaps are riskier for a multi-tenant fleet than a single app.
Kubernetes Turned Off Its Own StatefulSet Speedup: The Real Status of maxUnavailable in 1.35/1.36, and the Quorum Math for 1.37
Kubernetes 1.35 shipped StatefulSet maxUnavailable as beta-and-on-by-default — then a rollout-deadlock bug got it flipped back off within the same release cycle. Here's the verified current status, plus the quorum math for when it's safe to raise it.
MCP Just Passed 22,000 Servers. Almost None of Them Can Deploy Anything.
MCP has 22,000+ servers and 97M monthly downloads, but almost all of them are read-only lookups. Here's what idempotent deploys, rollback, and audit logging actually require from the ones that aren't.
MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete
MCP's biggest spec rewrite since launch went final on July 28, 2026, killing the session model a deploy/rollback MCP server used to need. A concrete before/after of what infrastructure gets deleted and what still has to run.
MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete
MCP dropped protocol-level sessions on July 28, 2026 — deleting the sticky routing and shared session store a self-hosted deploy/rollback MCP server used to need, and adding a formal lifecycle policy worth pinning to.
MCP's Tasks Extension Kills the Deploy-and-Poll Hack — But Idempotency Is Still Your Job
MCP's new Tasks extension finally standardizes the poll-for-status hack every deploy MCP server reinvents — but idempotency, cancellation, and state ownership are gaps the spec leaves for the platform to close itself.
Nutanix Ships NKP Metal: A Hyperconverged Giant Bets on Bare-Metal Kubernetes
Nutanix, a $2.8B-revenue HCI vendor built on its own hypervisor, just shipped bare-metal Kubernetes as a flagship product. Here's what NKP Metal actually costs, what it doesn't replace, and why it's independent validation for the Cluster-API thesis.
OpenAI Adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills Format in 48 Hours — What That Means for Your Deploy Runbooks
OpenAI adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills packaging format within 48 hours of its release, not just its MCP protocol. Here's what that convergence changes about writing a portable runbook Skill instead of a bespoke one.