1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Hetzner's €214 GEX45: What 24 GB of Blackwell VRAM Buys Self-Hosted Inference (and When It Beats Serverless GPUs)
Hetzner's €214/month GEX45 pairs an RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell card with 24 GB of VRAM. The crossover math against serverless GPU rentals, and which models newly fit.
Java 27 Is GA: G1 Everywhere, Quantum-Safe TLS, and Goodbye Intel Macs — Your Buildpack TODO List
Java 27 turned on G1, compact object headers, and hybrid post-quantum TLS by default while ending Intel Mac maintenance. Here is what each change means for a self-hosted PaaS Java buildpack, with container memory math and a build-fleet checklist.
Kubernetes 1.36 In-Place Pod Resize Goes Beta: What Restart-Free Vertical Scaling Replaces in a PaaS Autoscaler
Kubernetes 1.36 graduates in-place vertical scaling for pod-level resources to beta: the kubelet can now grow a running pod's CPU and memory budget without a restart. This post shows the resize operation, the before/after for a PaaS autoscaler, and the beta caveats to clear first.
Nine Years in Beta Is Over: What Kubernetes 1.37's Stable Metrics API Means for Your Autoscaler
Kubernetes 1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable after nearly nine years in beta. What the frozen contract changes for autoscaling and usage metering on self-hosted clusters — plus the HPA gotcha and everything the API still doesn't do.
Per-Seat Pricing Is the Hidden Team Tax: A Five-Person Receipt from Vercel, Render, Railway, and Netlify
A five-person team pays $100 a month before compute on Vercel Pro — and $20 to $25 on Render, Railway, or Netlify. How 2026 flattened the platform seat, and why AI agents are about to break per-seat billing for good.
PostgreSQL 18's Async I/O on Owned NVMe: What io_uring Reads, uuidv7, and a CNPG Upgrade Path Mean for Operator-Owned Postgres
PostgreSQL 18's async I/O can nearly triple cold-read speed — but only on workloads that touch disk, on nodes that pass a short kernel and seccomp checklist. Here are the numbers, the checklist, and a CNPG upgrade runbook measured against Railway's one-click button.
Qovery's September 2026 Price Table Says Render $7, Railway $5, Fly.io $2.02 — Here's the Second-Year Bill It Hides
Qovery's September 2026 comparison lists Render from $7, Railway from $5, and Fly.io from $2.02 — but a typical production app bills 9–17x those headlines by month twelve. A line-by-line second-year ledger for all three, plus the flat Hetzner box.
Railway's Dotenv Diff Review: What Confirm-Before-Apply Env Changes Teach Agent-Driven Deploy Pipelines
Railway's variable edit flow batches env changes, shows a redacted diff, and applies only on confirm. That shape is the governance primitive agent-driven deploy pipelines need before AI agents get write access to production config.
Railway's Experimental HA Postgres: What 'Don't Trust It With Production Data' Means for Your Database Decision
Railway shipped one-click HA Postgres and warned users not to trust it with production data. This breakdown prices Railway's beta against Render's production HA and owned hardware — and turns 'experimental' into a four-line risk checklist with a decision tree.