1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Why Talos Linux's Own Creator Didn't Build Omni on Cluster API
Sidero Labs, the team behind Talos Linux, built its own Omni product without Cluster API. Here's a point-by-point read of its six objections against what a CAPH/CAPD-based fleet like bex actually looks like.
Vercel Killed Its Flat $0.30 AI-Agent Fee — Here's the Exact Token Count Where the New Metered Rate Costs More
Vercel dropped its flat $0.30 AI-Agent fee on June 30, 2026 for a $0.25-per-million-token rate. The exact crossover is 1.2 million tokens — below it the new pricing is dramatically cheaper, above it there's no ceiling. Here's the full worked math against Netlify and against owning the inference route yourself.
Vercel Made DDoS Traffic Free in May 2026 — So Why Did a Site Still Get Billed $231.71 for an Attack in June?
Vercel made firewall-blocked DDoS traffic free on May 18, 2026 — but a customer still got hit with a $231.71 bill for a June attack. Here's the exact carve-out in Vercel's policy that still leaves teams exposed, and what changes on owned hardware.
Vercel's Three Outages in Eight Days: What a Build Pipeline, a CDN, and a Workflow Engine Failing Separately Actually Means
Vercel logged three unrelated incidents in eight days in July 2026 — stuck workflow runs, a regional CDN/Dashboard/Functions outage, and a build queue backup — hitting three different subsystems independently. Here's the timeline, the numbers behind it, and what actually changes when you own the layers underneath.
Vercel's $20 Universal Credit Didn't Kill the Meters — It Just Hid Them Behind One Bill
A worked recompute of what a five-seat Next.js team actually pays under Vercel's new $20 credit model versus the same workload self-hosted on a Hetzner box, line by line.
Deploying vLLM as Just Another Git-Push App: What GPU Scheduling Actually Adds
Placement mostly reduces to a manifest field and a node-pool label. Routing doesn't — a worked example against bex's actual Hetzner GPU inventory shows exactly where 'just another git-push app' breaks down for a model server.
12-Factor Agents Is the New 12-Factor App: A Deploy Tool's Field Guide
Dex Horthy's 12-Factor Agents mirrors Heroku's 2011 methodology almost line for line. Here's what each of the twelve factors concretely costs a platform building MCP-exposed deploy and rollback tools for AI agents.
Buildpacks vs the Self-Hosted PaaS Pack: Why Coolify, Dokploy, and Kubero All Default to Heroku's git-push Instead of Cloud Native Buildpacks
Heroku co-created the Cloud Native Buildpacks standard in 2018. In 2026, the leading self-hosted PaaS tools still don't default to it — and two of them support it anyway, just not by default. Here's the actual build layer under each tool's hood.
Chaos Mesh vs LitmusChaos: Which One Actually Fits Breaking Your Own Fleet on Purpose
Chaos Mesh runs a privileged daemon on every node; LitmusChaos spins up a disposable pod per experiment. A concrete look at which one actually proves a self-hosted, multi-tenant Cluster API fleet survives a node loss, a network partition, and an etcd disk going slow — without taking down a tenant's app by accident.