1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Railway's Observability Glow-Up: What Six New Panels Are Worth Against a Grafana You Own
Railway's July 31 changelog adds six observability panels with synced cursors and drag-to-zoom — free and good until 30-day retention, zero custom metrics, and click-ops dashboards bind. A worked sidecar cost comparison against Grafana and Perses on owned iron, and the OpenTelemetry move that keeps telemetry portable.
Railway Built an Agent-Execution Cloud in Six Changelogs — Here's the Open Stack That Replicates It
Railway's June–July 2026 changelogs assembled sandboxes, Docker-in-sandbox, checkpoints, preinstalled agents, and chat steering into one closed agent-execution cloud. A primitive-by-primitive teardown plus the open equivalents — Firecracker microVMs, Kata, snapshots, and a git-push PaaS — that replicate it on machines you own.
The Same 2 vCPU, Priced 7x Apart: What Agent-Sandbox Pricing Reveals About Isolation Cost
Seven agent sandboxes price an identical 2 vCPU/4GB hour from $0.052 to $0.378 — a 7.3x spread both of whose extremes are KVM. Duty-cycle math, pause semantics, and owned-hardware breakevens that show what the premium really buys.
Buildpacks Aren't Dead: Why Git Push Still Beats a Hand-Written Dockerfile for Most Apps
Dokploy's 35,000 stars celebrate a compose-first deploy contract, but most deploys are a single app with no dependency graph — a grounded ruling on where compose-first genuinely wins and why detection-first still owns the common case.
Cloud Native Buildpacks Graduates CNCF: What It Means for Teams That Stopped Writing Dockerfiles
Cloud Native Buildpacks graduated CNCF on August 11, 2026 with 535 contributors and a public security audit — what the stamp changes for git-push platforms betting on pack build, and the builder bus-factor warning it doesn't cover.
Governance Is the Runtime: What CNCF's 'Platform Under the Model' Turn Demands From Your Control Plane
87% of orgs encourage AI agents but only 47% govern them. Here is the six-gate runtime checklist — identity, admission, approval, audit, provenance, kill switch — that turns CNCF's 'governance embedded in the runtime' from slogan into control-plane wiring.
Your AI Agent Can Restart Production Now: What a Coolify MCP Bridge Teaches About Infrastructure Context vs Code Context
A community MCP server plugs an AnythingLLM agent into the Coolify API for one-prompt restarts and log diagnosis; this case study maps the five gaps between that demo wiring and a secure agent-to-infrastructure bridge, plus the six controls that close them.
Coolify v5 Says No to Kubernetes: What 'Like Swarm but Better' Means at Box Two
Coolify v5 bets on a custom Compose-native orchestrator instead of Kubernetes. A six-capability box-two scorecard — rolling deploys, scheduling, storage, networking, machine lifecycle, conformance — with evidence tags on every v5 promise, plus the four signals that tell you whether to wait or leave the single-box ceiling now.
Coolify vs Dokploy After a Real Migration: What the Same Laravel App on Two Identical Hetzner Boxes Reveals
The same Laravel app plus Postgres, deployed to Coolify and Dokploy on two identical Hetzner CPX21 boxes: install times, Railpack-vs-Nixpacks build speeds, and the one-click-vs-CLI restore gap that picked the winner — plus where the result confirms our second-machine showdown.