1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Kubernetes 1.36's Sharded List and Watch: the N× Watch Tax It Kills, and the Ceiling It Doesn't Touch
Kubernetes 1.36's alpha sharded list and watch cuts sharded-controller stream cost from N× to 1× — but it shards controller fan-out, not etcd. The math, the mechanism, and the operator checklist for self-hosted fleets.
MCP Won: Why Every Major AI Vendor Shipping One Protocol Makes 'Deploy From Chat' a Safe Roadmap Bet
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all ship MCP now — 97M monthly SDK downloads, 10,000+ servers, neutral foundation governance. What that convergence changes about betting your platform's deploy/rollback/logs agent surface on one protocol, and the four residual risks to budget for.
Surviving a Full Hetzner Datacenter Outage: What 3-DC k0s HA Really Costs Versus Single-DC
A 3-datacenter k0s cluster on Hetzner survives a full DC outage for about $103/mo in servers and $0 in extra traffic — but every etcd write pays ~25ms and a third of worker capacity must sit idle. Here is the layer-by-layer HA design, the verified cost math, and when single-DC plus backups wins instead.
Your Dockerfile Cache Is Blind to Your Monorepo: What Build-Graph Caching Adds to a Git-Push PaaS Pipeline
A one-line monorepo change costs about 11 builder-minutes under Docker layer caching versus 4 with Turborepo/Bazel remote cache hits — the worked time-and-cost math, the September 2026 Namespace/Depot/Blacksmith landscape, and when a git-push PaaS should offer graph-aware caching natively.
Node 26 Hits Active LTS on October 28: A Builder Checklist for Git-Push PaaS Teams
Node.js 26 becomes Active LTS on October 28, 2026 — with Yarn v1 and Corepack gone from builder images and six tenant-facing breakages to triage. A dated checklist for git-push PaaS operators covering default-flip timing, EOL warnings, and the annual cadence that starts with Node 27.
The npm Worm With Valid Provenance: What ChainDrop's 400 Poisoned Packages Mean for Anyone Building Tenant Images
ChainDrop poisoned 400+ npm packages with valid SLSA provenance after the keyv maintainer's GitHub account was compromised. Here is what provenance-only trust breaks and the five build-pipeline controls every tenant-image builder needs.
A Full PaaS on One $11 ARM Server: What Real CAX21 Usage Data Says About Tenant Capacity
A measured teardown of a full multi-tenant PaaS on a €10.99 Hetzner CAX21 ARM server: per-component RAM tables, per-tier tenant footprints, and the 10–25 tenant capacity the numbers support — plus the scaling ladder to €33 and ~€200.
The Reliability Tier Is the Real Price Tag: Railway HA vs Render's New Plans vs Your Own Fleet
Railway's experimental HA Postgres and Render's flat-rate workspace plans repriced reliability in spring 2026: about $187/mo versus $116/mo for a two-replica HA setup against $35/mo on owned Hetzner machines, plus the sensitivity math on replicas, egress, and team size.
Ship the Agent, Not Just the App: Curie vs Deployah and the Future of the Git-Push Deploy Contract
Curie ships Claude Code agents to Kubernetes via git push while Deployah shrinks the manifest to a short spec with nothing in-cluster: a side-by-side of the two deploy contracts, the six deploy-time concerns agents add, and which end a git-push PaaS should extend first.