1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Velero Is a CNCF Project Now: What That Buys Your Self-Hosted Disaster-Recovery Story
Broadcom donated Velero to the CNCF Sandbox at KubeCon EU 2026, ending three years of single-vendor risk on Kubernetes' default backup tool. Here is what neutral governance changes and the concrete DR blueprint for a fleet you own — S3-compatible storage, nightly schedules, and the Cluster API restore drill.
Vercel Renamed the Meters Instead of Cutting Them: Four Pricing Revisions, One Unchanged Bill
Vercel renamed bandwidth to Fast Data Transfer and split serverless billing into Active CPU and Provisioned Memory across four pricing revisions — but the overage economics never moved. A line-by-line translation into real dollars, plus the flat-price self-hosted alternative.
Windows Just Shipped Its Own Docker Desktop Bypass: What wslc Means for Git-Push Deploys
Microsoft's WSL Containers preview in WSL 2.9.3 gives Windows 11 a built-in OCI container runtime — wslc.exe — with Docker-like commands, twice-as-fast virtiofs file access, and VPN-friendly networking. Here is the license-free build-locally-push-to-PaaS loop and the per-seat math it deletes.
Zero-Downtime Docker Compose Deploys Hit HN: What Compose-Native Blue-Green Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
StatusDude's HN-surfaced guide proves zero-downtime deploys need only Docker Compose, an HAProxy redispatch config, and a ten-line rolling loop — thousands of checks a minute with nothing dropped. Here is the exact recipe, the true blue-green sibling, and the capability gap that appears the moment deploys span machines.
The Agentic Enterprise's Second Platform User: Designing Golden Paths That Both Developers and Deploy Agents Can Safely Consume
AI agents now provision, deploy, and investigate incidents alongside developers. A side-by-side comparison of a human-only portal with a machine-readable golden path, and the four contracts that make deploy from chat safe.
Two PaaS Freezes, One Exit Plan: Where App Runner and Heroku Workloads Go Next
AWS closed App Runner to new customers and Heroku froze its roadmap twelve weeks apart — this side-by-side maps each stranded workload to its landing zone and lays out the ordered exit checklist, from portable builds to cutover with rollback.
Approximated vs DIY: The Real Cost of Point-an-A-Record-and-We-Handle-SSL on a Cluster-API Fleet
Approximated charges $0.20 per domain per month — or $199+/month self-hosted — to automate custom domains and SSL. Here is what the same ACME-plus-DNS pipeline costs to build into a Cluster-API fleet you already run, with the crossover math at 100, 1,000, and 10,000 domains.
Back4App Ranked 10 Heroku Replacements — Where Render, Railway, and Fly.io Actually Land
Back4App's February 2026 guide ranks ten Heroku replacements after sustaining mode froze the roadmap. Render takes the free tier and the Heroku-UX crown, Fly.io takes the always-on floor — and the same 4vCPU/8GB stack costs $20–60 a month hosted versus €4.35 on a flat Hetzner box.
Backstage Scaffolder vs Port in 2026: What a Service Catalog Buys When Your Deploy API Already Owns the Golden Path
Backstage Scaffolder vs Port's managed catalog in 2026: what each adds over a git-push deploy API that already owns the golden path, plus the service-count rule for when a catalog earns its keep.