1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Hetzner Gives Away the Model Calls: What Free Inference Is Actually Worth to an Agent Builder
Hetzner's free experimental Inference API serves Qwen open-weight models at zero per-token cost — a worked comparison shows it replaces about $30 a month of hosted inference for a typical agent workload, within rate limits and no-SLA terms that rule out production use.
Half of Kubernetes Got a Two-Month Warning: What the Ingress-NGINX Governance Crisis Means for Self-Hosted Platforms
The Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees' joint ingress-nginx warning was a governance signal, not a CVE — here's the escalation ladder, a default-routing decision matrix, and a five-check policy for request-path dependencies.
Kool.dev's $49 BYOC vs. Owning the Whole Stack: A Cost-and-Control Teardown
Kool.dev's BYOC plan runs k0s on your VPS for $49/mo, but the $5 managed databases and $0.45/GB storage reintroduce the vendor dependency self-hosting was meant to remove. A three-column cost teardown with trust-boundary analysis.
What KubeCon Amsterdam Disagreed About: Golden Paths, Hidden Kubernetes, and Agents as Users
KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam agreed platform engineering is the standard org model but split on golden-path scope, Kubernetes abstraction depth, and agents as platform users. This synthesis maps the three fault lines with verdicts for small self-hosted teams.
The $3,000-to-$200 Migration Story Cuts Both Ways: What a Kubernetes-to-Fly.io Bill Drop Really Proves
A $3,000 Kubernetes bill rebuilt on Fly.io for $200 decomposes into roughly 80% right-sizing and 20% unit prices — and the same disciplined workload runs on owned Hetzner hardware for about $50.
MCP Crossed the Chasm: 97M Downloads, 10,000 Servers, and the Checklist for Making Your API Agent-Legible
MCP hit 97M monthly SDK downloads and 10,000+ servers with support across every major AI client. Here is the six-item checklist — typed tools, idempotent writes, machine-readable errors, stateless HTTP, completable auth, discovery — for making your infrastructure API legible to the agents now operating it.
Off Vercel Hobby: Where Your Indie SaaS Goes When 'Free' Stops Covering a Business
Vercel's free Hobby plan bans commercial use, and 2026's free-tier map offers no refuge — so here is the migration playbook: the monthly math across Vercel Pro, Railway, Fly.io, Render, and a seven-dollar Hetzner box, plus what ISR, edge functions, and preview URLs map to off the edge.
No More Stringly-Typed Deploys: What pikpik's Four Invariants Say About Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover Reliability
Dokploy fixed five shell-injection RCEs in one release — the sharpest proof of pikpik's 'zero shelling' invariant. This audit ranks all four invariants against the public CVE and issue record of Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover, and shows why a PaaS built on typed Kubernetes manifests inherits the whole bar by construction.
Stop Handing Agents the CI Token: A Blueprint for Agent Identity, Budgets, and Approvals on the Git-Push Golden Path
Run-scoped agent identity, per-environment budgets, approval-gated deploys, and policy-linked audit records: a buildable four-lane blueprint for letting AI agents operate a self-hosted PaaS without handing them the CI token.