1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Seven Agent Sandbox Vendors Shipped Snapshot by June 2026 — What Happens When a Differentiator Becomes Table Stakes
By June 2026, seven agent-sandbox vendors shipped snapshot and resume — but only three preserve running processes. A side-by-side comparison of what each one saves, what it costs underneath, and why memory resume is the hard part for self-hosted platforms.
Your Build History Is Now a Line Item: What Appwrite's Metered Builds and Storage-Counted Deployments Cost a Team That Ships Often
Appwrite bills every build in GB-hours — failed builds included — and counts retained deployments against your storage allowance. A worked cost comparison for a team shipping 10 times a day, and what to set before your deploy cadence becomes a budget line.
Cilium 1.20 Retires Two More Boxes: TCP Routes, Gateway Auth, and the Case for a CNI-Run Fleet
Cilium 1.20 adds TCPRoute/UDPRoute and gateway ExternalAuth to its Gateway API support, closing the last gaps that kept small fleets running a separate ingress controller and auth proxy. Here is the consolidation map, the concrete migration costs, and where a service mesh still earns its keep.
Coolify's Second Critical RCE of 2026: How a Dockerfile Path Became a Shell (CVE-2026-34038)
Coolify's CVE-2026-34038 lets any user with application write access run shell commands on the host and pull secrets out through deployment logs — the sixth deploy-field injection in seven months, and a case study in single-daemon blast radius.
Every Hopped from Railway to Render. What the Hop Fixed — and the Ceiling It Didn't Touch.
Every moved its whole fleet from Railway to Render in March 2026. A row-by-row audit of what the hop fixed, what it merely moved to a different status page, and why the ceiling only moves with owned machines.
GitHub Actions Tripled Capacity and Cut Prices 39% in 2026: The Honest Math on CI Minutes vs PaaS Builds
GitHub cut Actions runner prices up to 39% and tripled capacity in 2026. This breakdown compares CI minutes against self-hosted runners and PaaS build meters line by line — with breakeven points and the hidden costs that matter more than the rate.
GitHub's September 25 Runner Deadline: What the Version Floor Actually Fixes (and the Build-Fleet Holes It Leaves Open)
GitHub starts enforcing self-hosted runner versions on September 25. Here is exactly what changes, why the last three CI supply-chain attacks would not have been stopped by a version floor, and the checklist to run before Friday.
Your Tenants Now Ship a Spec With the Code: What GitHub Spec Kit's spec.md/plan.md/tasks.md Would Change for PaaS Build Detection
GitHub's Spec Kit is turning spec-before-code into a repo-layout convention tenants push with every deploy. This breakdown maps each artifact — spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md, constitution — to the build-detection signal it carries, and draws the trust boundary that keeps a spec-reading platform safe.
Heroku's Shutdown Isn't Announced — Your Contingency Checklist Should Be Done Anyway
InfoWorld reads Heroku's February 2026 sustaining mode as a prelude to phase-out. No shutdown is announced — but the export-ready audit (generation and stack inventory, data backup drills, container images off the Cedar-only registry, config extraction, add-on disentanglement order) is the same work as scoping your migration.