1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Heroku Dyno Math in 2026: What $50 Standard-2X and $250 Performance-M Bills Buy Against Owned Hetzner Hardware
A line-by-line pricing of typical $50 Standard-2X and $250 Performance-M Heroku stacks against a $55 owned Hetzner server, with exit sketches for buildpacks, databases, and review apps — and the month each move pays for itself.
Heroku Is Frozen and Fir Can't Run Your Dockerfile: Which Workloads to Move First
Salesforce froze Heroku in February 2026 and the Fir generation still can't run Docker images, leaving containerized apps with no on-platform future. A concrete sequencing plan: move the Docker workloads first onto a Dockerfile-native target, and let buildpack apps ride out Cedar.
Heroku to Kubernetes in a Weekend: The $140-to-€11 Migration Playbook
Salesforce put Heroku in sustaining mode in February 2026. This weekend runbook moves a $140/month web + worker + Postgres + Redis stack to a €11.37/month Cluster API fleet on Hetzner — commands, cutover sequence, both invoices, and the rollback plan.
From Heroku to Render at 2,800 RPS: What a Rails Migration's Latency Trade-Off Reveals Before You Self-Host
A 2,800-RPS Rails app makes the Heroku-to-Render decision concrete: routing, timeouts, queueing math, and incident fate, plus a checklist for stopping at Render or self-hosting instead.
Your Gateway's Next Feature Doesn't Need an Envoy Fork: What kgateway's Rust Dynamic Modules Actually Buy a Self-Hosted PaaS
kgateway's Rust dynamic modules run custom payload logic inside Envoy at native speed with no fork and no recompile. How the mechanism works, how it compares to Lua, Wasm, and ext_proc, and the three catches a self-hosted platform team should budget for.
Kubernetes v1.37 Takes Workload-Aware Scheduling to Beta: Bin-Packing Batch Jobs on Bare Metal Without a Managed Autoscaler
Kubernetes v1.37 graduates gang scheduling and the Workload/PodGroup APIs to Beta. A worked before/after on a fixed 4-node pool shows what atomic placement buys a bare-metal fleet with no autoscaler, plus the exact feature gates and API versions needed to opt in.
10,000 MCP Servers and 97M Downloads Later, the Bottleneck Is Discovery
MCP passed 10,000 public servers and 97M monthly SDK downloads, so the hard problem is no longer the protocol — it is discovery and trust. What Arcade's brokered runtime and the Coolify agent bridges teach a self-hosted PaaS about shipping a deploy, rollback, and logs server that agents can find and be trusted with.
Half a Billion Downloads Get a Diploma: What MCP's First Certification (MCPA) Signals for Platform Teams
The Agentic AI Foundation's MCPA exam arrives as MCP SDK downloads near half a billion a month. What the blueprint's 50% ops-and-security weighting tells platform teams, what the credential doesn't prove, and three moves to make this quarter.
My Server Started Mining Monero: What a 606-Point Cryptojacking Postmortem Teaches About Hardening Self-Hosted PaaS Nodes
A Hetzner box mined Monero for ten days before anyone noticed — here is the kill chain link by link, and the node-hardening checklist (key-only SSH, egress policy, resource alerts) a self-hosted PaaS should ship by default.