1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
pgBackRest Got Archived, Then Rescued: The Bus-Factor Checklist Every Self-Hosted Postgres Backup Stack Needs
pgBackRest's repo went read-only in April 2026 after its corporate sponsor was sold, then a nine-company coalition revived it three weeks later. Here's the five-question checklist that story exposes, applied to the two real backup paths a CloudNativePG operator can choose today.
Railway's New MCP Server Has 7 Tools. bex's Shipped One Has 13 — and Still Can't Deploy
Railway's remote MCP server ships 7 tools and a one-line agent install; bex's already-shipped MCP server exposes 13. Here's what each actually lets an agent do unattended, and the one deploy verb bex still owes its own roadmap.
The Self-Hosted PaaS Category Gets Crowded in 2026: What Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy Actually Don't Do
Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy now cover the self-hosted PaaS category from every angle. A grounded look at the three things none of them do — and the real cost of the Kubernetes-native alternative that does.
SNCF Rebuilt Its Cloud-Native Platform on Cluster API — Here's What Changed
CNCF gave SNCF its 2026 Top End User Award for a Cluster API rebuild that cut cluster provisioning from a month to 30 minutes and production incidents by 90%. Here's the stack, the before/after numbers, and what it proves about running Cluster API at production stakes.
What a Zanzibar-Style Relationship Graph Buys a Deploy MCP Server Over a Scoped API Key
AuthZed is pitching SpiceDB's relationship-graph authorization for AI agents. Here's the actual SpiceDB schema for a deploy/rollback MCP server, what it can check that a scoped API key can't, and whether running it is worth the operational cost.
The $2 Million Threshold: What Building Your Own Platform Actually Costs
A cloud bill supposedly needs to hit $2M a year before building your own platform beats renting one — except that $2M is platform-team payroll, not an infrastructure bill, and running a self-hosted PaaS on owned hardware gets the same capability for roughly a third to two-thirds of the cost.
Windsurf Split Into Three Companies in a Week — Then the Brand Died Too
OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal collapsed, Google took the founders for $2.4B, and Cognition bought the rest for $250M — all in one week. Eleven months later even the brand was gone. Here's why building your deploy workflow on an open protocol beats betting on any single agent vendor's survival.
Your Deploy Agent Has the Same Privileges as a Human Push — and No Insurance
AIUC-1 and California's AB 316 just made 2026 the year AI agent liability got real, while insurers quietly excluded it from standard coverage. Here's what's actually covered, what isn't, and the audit-trail and permission design a deploy-from-chat platform needs today.
What Bunnyshell and Okteto Actually Charge for 'Namespace Per PR' — And What It Costs to Build Once
A line-by-line breakdown of what Bunnyshell's per-minute meter and Okteto's per-seat fee actually cost a mid-size team's PR preview environments each month, versus building the same namespace-per-PR workflow on owned Cluster API infrastructure.