1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
SOC 2's 'No Human Request' Problem: Why Your AI Agent Needs a Delegation Chain, Not Just an Audit Log
SOC 2 auditors now flag 'no human request' as an accountability gap even with a complete audit log. Here's the credential pattern — encoding who authorized what, not just logging it — that actually satisfies the Trust Services Criteria for an agent-native deploy API.
Supabase's June 2026 Changelog Breaks Self-Hosted Auth — Here's What Actually Fails
Supabase's July 2026 changelog quietly rewrote how API_EXTERNAL_URL builds OAuth callbacks and JWT issuers for self-hosted deployments, while a second widely-reported change turns out not to touch self-hosted Postgres at all. Here's the exact config lines to check and the ones you can ignore.
Ubicloud's Open-Source AWS-on-Hetzner Bet: Should a Cluster-API Fleet Provision on Top of It?
Ubicloud open-sources an AWS-shaped IaaS layer on Hetzner bare metal — here's the concrete architecture question of whether a Cluster-API-managed PaaS should provision on top of it, or keep talking to Hetzner directly.
vCluster Cuts Tenant-Isolation Costs 3x Over One Machine Per Tenant — Here's the Math
A worked cost model for isolating 50 tenants on a Cluster-API-managed fleet: one dedicated machine per tenant versus vCluster's shared-pool virtual control planes, and where the shared-kernel tradeoff still bites.
Broadcom Donated Velero to CNCF — Here's the Backup Checklist a Self-Hosted PaaS Should Actually Run
Broadcom handed Velero to the CNCF Sandbox, but Sandbox-tier projects still archive at a 15-20% rate within three years. Here's the honest risk read and the concrete backup checklist for running Velero against owned object storage.
Vercel's Fluid Compute Pricing Confuses Function Cold Starts With Idle Time: A 2026 Bill Breakdown
Vercel bills cold-start boot time as Active CPU but mid-request I/O wait as Provisioned Memory — two opposite billing treatments for what looks like the same 'waiting.' A worked Next.js bill shows how that split can double a monthly charge with zero traffic change.
HowdyGo's Vercel Image Bill Once 7x'd a $20 Plan: What 28,000 Images Actually Cost in 2026
HowdyGo's 28,000-image month once turned a $20 Vercel plan into a $135 bill. Here's the full math on what changed in 2025, what it costs today, and when a self-hosted Hetzner box still wins.
Vercel's Turbo Build Machines Are the Default Now — Here's the Real Monthly Bill
Vercel made Turbo build machines the default for Pro projects in February 2026, then cut the per-minute rate 16% in April. Here's the recomputed monthly bill for a real monorepo team, and the build volume where a self-hosted build layer with no per-minute meter actually pays for itself.
Vibe Coding's $4.7B Quarter: What 92% Developer Adoption of AI Codegen Means for Who Owns the Deploy Target
Vibe-coding tools hit $4.7 billion in 2026 spend with 92% daily developer adoption, but every one of those dollars pays for the tool that writes the app, not the platform that runs it. Here's the deploy-target map — which vendors bundle deployment, which stay open to any agent — and what that split actually costs once a prototype becomes a real production app.