1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
DOKS Turned Every Node Into a Registry Mirror: What P2P Image Pulls Actually Save a Self-Hosted Fleet
DigitalOcean's Spegel-based P2P registry plugin hit GA in September 2026. Measured benchmarks, fleet-size math, and a self-host runbook show what peer-to-peer image pulls save in latency, egress, and rate-limit exposure.
E2B Runs 88% of the Fortune 100's Agent Workloads: What 150ms Firecracker Sandboxes Set as the Bar
E2B's Firecracker microVM sandboxes — 150ms boot, per-second billing, 88% Fortune 100 adoption — define what agent code execution must look like. A concrete five-component spec plus the self-hosted control-plane checklist.
Fly.io Bets $25M on 'Computers for Agents' — and Proves the Self-Hosted Case
Fly.io raised $25M and hired an ex-Docker CEO to build 'computers for agents.' The strategy is right — but the rent-vs-own math shows steady-state agent fleets run cheaper on machines you own.
Fly.io's $0.08/GB Snapshot Bill: The Backup Line Item Your Self-Hosting Math Forgot
Fly.io started charging $0.08/GB for volume snapshots in January 2026. A line-item breakdown of what the backup dimension costs for a typical web-plus-Postgres stack, and how it compares to the same retention on owned disks.
Heroku to AWS in One Command: What Agent-Driven Migration Gets Right — and the Self-Hosted Exit It Skips
Qovery's September 24 webinar promises Heroku-to-AWS migration in one command with an agent doing the work. Here is what agent-driven playbooks automate well, what still needs a human, and why the self-hosted exit never makes the slide deck — plus the three-way cost math.
Heroku to Linode + Kamal in Production: A Real Team's Terraform-Retiring Migration, Step by Step
A production Rails site left Heroku for Linode plus Kamal in three days across four tracked issues, ending with the Heroku provider deleted from Terraform. This walkthrough covers each cutover step, the before/after bill, and what the team's no-fallback decision costs the week DNS flips.
Hetzner After the June 2026 Price Hikes: Auction Metal vs Cloud VMs as Kubernetes Fleet Nodes
Hetzner's June 2026 hikes tripled dedicated cloud prices while auction boxes held at €37–€46 — a euro-level comparison of auction metal versus cloud VMs as Kubernetes fleet nodes, the operational tradeoffs, and which roles fit each.
Kubernetes 1.37 Scales HPA to Zero in Core: No More Paying for Idle Pods
Kubernetes 1.37 graduates HPA scale-to-zero to a default-on beta, so queue workers and preview environments can drop to zero replicas on an external metric. This post works the idle-economics math, shows the exact wiring, and maps where KEDA and Knative still fit.
Signing Every Build Means Nothing If Nothing Checks: Wiring Cosign Into a Git-Push PaaS
Kubernetes signs its releases with Sigstore — but a signature nobody verifies is theater. How to wire Cosign keyless signing into a git-push pipeline and enforce it with a Kyverno admission policy before unsigned images reach your nodes.