1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Railway Turned Its CLI MCP Server Into a Proxy: One Credential for Every Agent, and an Audit Trail You Can No Longer See
Railway's September 2026 changelog flips railway mcp from a bundled local server to a proxy for its hosted MCP endpoint. Here is the three-way tradeoff — local vs proxy-to-hosted vs self-hosted — across credentials, logging, scope enforcement, and audit ownership, plus a decision rule for production agent access.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Line-by-Line Bill for the Same Node.js + Postgres App
A line-by-line recompute of the same Node.js + Postgres bill on Railway, Render, Fly.io, and a flat-rate Hetzner box — plus the egress, geography, and idle-workload sensitivity that decides which metering shape actually wins.
Render's New Memory-Optimized Plans Repriced: A Steady Web Service Bill vs a Fixed Hetzner Node
Render's August 26 compute-plan overhaul added 15+ memory-optimized tiers without touching legacy prices. A line-by-line reprice of a steady $79 web-service stack, the RAM-heavy workloads that got $25–$100/month cheaper, and the $10 fixed-node counterfactual.
Render Killed Per-Seat Pricing: A Worked Five-Person Bill for Railway vs Render vs a $19 Hetzner Box
Render's April 2026 restructure ended per-seat billing, so seats cost $0 on both Railway and Render. A line-by-line bill for a five-engineer staging-plus-production setup on each, plus the $19 self-hosted counterfactual.
Salesforce Closed Both Deploy Doors: The Complete Exit Map for Functions and Heroku Teams
Salesforce Functions went end-of-life in January 2025 and Heroku froze new development in February 2026. One table maps every stranded workload — Functions code, dynos, Postgres, Redis, add-ons — to its destination, with the data-first sequence that avoids migrating twice.
Your Pod Can Now Evict Its Neighbors to Grow: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Resize Goes Alpha in Kubernetes v1.37
Kubernetes v1.37's alpha resize preemption lets the scheduler evict lower-priority pods so a growing pod completes its in-place scale-up instead of stalling in Deferred. Here is how the lifecycle works, a ten-minute kind reproduction, and the PriorityClass policy a self-hosted PaaS needs before trusting it.
Suga Ranked 7 Heroku Alternatives for Docker Workloads — I Recomputed the Bill on One Reference Stack
Suga's price-verified ranking compares seven Heroku alternatives for Docker workloads. We reprice the same reference stack on all seven plus owned hardware — and find egress is the line item that decides it.
1.5TB of RAM and 192 vCPUs for Under €600/Month: What a Hybrid Talos-on-Hetzner Build Validates About Splitting Control Planes From Workers
A third-party builder ran 1.5TB of RAM and 192 vCPUs on hybrid Talos-on-Hetzner iron for under €600/month. Here is what the numbers verify, what broke on the VM-to-bare-metal seam, and where the bare-metal-is-cheaper claim lands.
Your CI Server Just Became an Agent Tool: What TeamCity's MCP Server Means for Deploy-From-Chat
TeamCity's MCP servers — the community's 87-tool Full Mode and JetBrains' official 2026.1 endpoint — turn builds, tests, and agent pools into agent-callable tools. The CI half of deploy-from-chat is here; per-tool scoping and human approval decide whether it is safe to use.