1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Heroku's Quiet End of Life: A 90-Day Exit Playbook for Teams Still Paying by the Dyno
Salesforce moved Heroku to sustaining engineering in February 2026: no new features, no new Enterprise contracts. A 90-day exit playbook with the Salesforce sunset precedent, a 12-row pre-migration audit, week-by-week phases for a Postgres plus web plus worker stack, and the honest first-year cost of moving versus waiting.
Kubernetes v1.37 Finally Lets You noexec a Volume Mount: Closing the 9-Year-Old Hole in readOnlyRootFilesystem
Kubernetes v1.37 adds alpha bindMountOptions and emptyDir mode fields that finally let operators mount volumes noexec and stop emptyDir from defaulting to 0777. What the two knobs block, and the gate rollout checklist for multi-tenant fleets.
Kubernetes 1.37 Scales HPA Workloads to Zero (Beta): What It Replaces in Your Idle-Reaping Playbook — and What It Doesn't
Kubernetes 1.37 graduates HPA scale-to-zero to beta with one line — minReplicas: 0. Queue consumers can drop the bespoke idle-reaper, but HTTP services still need Knative-style request buffering, and four policy gaps stay on the platform.
Mooring: a Security-First PaaS in One Binary — and What Breaks When You Need a Second Server
Mooring packs a secure-by-default PaaS into one 12 MB binary — no Swarm, no Kubernetes. This capability-by-capability comparison with Coolify, Dokploy, and Cluster API fleets shows exactly what breaks when one server stops being enough.
One Sponsor Pulled the Plug and Paketo Had Two Weeks to Move Registries: The Buildpack Bus-Factor Problem
When Paketo's GCP sponsor pulled funding, the project had about two weeks to move every image off GCR. This post audits what a build pipeline really inherits from its builder, prices the four responses — trust, mirror, vendor, or switch — and gives platform teams a five-step checklist before the next forced migration.
Your Database Backup Passed and Your App Still Won't Restore: What Portabase's Docker Volume Support Means for Self-Hosted PaaS Backups
Portabase promoted Docker volumes to first-class backup targets alongside Postgres and MySQL. The tool is single-host, but the thesis ports to any fleet: schedule, retain, and restore-test database and volume state as one problem.
BYOC Bills Twice: Porter's $20M Bet on Your Cloud Account vs Owning the Bare Metal
Porter charges a PaaS meter on top of your own AWS bill. We itemize the double bill for a typical team workload and compare it against the fixed price of owned Hetzner bare metal.
Railway's $100M Series B: What VC Runway Buys Against Hardware You Own
Railway raised $100M to scale AI-native cloud infrastructure. A line-by-line comparison of metered hosted bills against owned hardware, plus the stay-or-migrate checklist the raise forces every team to run.
Railway Runs Your Agents Now: What Cloud Agents on 24/7 VMs Cost vs a Self-Hosted Sandbox
Railway's Cloud Agents put Claude Code and Codex on metered 24/7 VMs with deploy tools built into every session. An always-on agent costs about $245 a month on Railway versus $19 on owned hardware — but utilization, the phone-resume UX, and the lock-in shape matter more than the meter.