1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
The Forge That Sketched Its Own PaaS, Then Cut It: What Cave's Deferred Podman Deploy Tells Teams Rebuilding Git-Push Without a Vendor
Cave's design PRD made podman deploy a launch pillar, then the author cut all container deploy functionality indefinitely. The spec, the cut, and a row-by-row accounting of what a forge answers versus what still needs a platform.
Temporal Went From $5B to $12.5B in Seven Months: Why Deploy-From-Chat Agents Need Durable Execution
Temporal's $550M raise at $12.55B and its GA OpenAI Agents SDK integration mark durable execution as production-required for agents. A worked deploy-from-chat crash scenario shows what breaks without it, plus a cloud vs self-hosted vs lighter-engine decision guide.
Zayo Put Network Operations Behind an MCP Server: What Governed Agent Access to the Underlay Means for Deploy-from-Chat
Zayo's September 2026 Agentic Networking launch puts network operations behind a governed MCP server. What an underlay-aware deploy agent can do, and the five-rule governance boundary your own agent tools should copy.
One Gateway or Fifty Servers? What AWS and Google's Opposite MCP Bets Mean for Your Deploy Surface
AWS ships one MCP server with a fixed tool set while Google ships more than fifty, one per service. This post compares both designs on context cost, auth, versioning, and audit, then recommends a concrete tool vocabulary for a deploy surface agents can operate.
Coolify vs Dokku vs CapRover vs Ownkube: What the 2026 Shootout Gets Right — and What Breaks at Box Two
A September 2026 four-way comparison crowns a winner for every team size — but its real finding is that each panel breaks differently at the second machine. This read-through prices all four ceilings, including the vendor's own.
Heroku Is Gone: What the Railway-vs-Render Bill Split Really Costs in 2026
Encore's 2026 verdict sends ex-Heroku teams to Railway or Render. We repriced the same dyno workload on both — plus an owned Hetzner box — to show what the bill-predictability split actually costs.
GitHub's September Reliability Deadline Arrived. The Incident Record Says It Missed.
GitHub's COO promised fewer availability problems by September 2026. The July-to-September incident record — an eight-hour August outage, another Actions failure weeks later, and a five-service degradation on September 13 — says the deadline was missed. What the verdict means for pipelines that treat github.com as load-bearing, and the three mechanisms that harden them.
Block the Training Bots, Welcome the Answer Bots: A robots.txt Default for the AI-Crawler Era
Publishers now block AI training bots while welcoming the same vendors' answering crawlers. A copy-paste three-tier robots.txt default for docs sites and tenant apps, with the traffic data and gotchas behind it.
Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: What 'No New Features' Means for Your Migration Decision
Heroku's February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement froze its roadmap: no new features, no new Enterprise contracts. What the freeze covers, the five clocks that will force your hand, what a typical $130-165/month footprint costs on Render, Railway, Fly.io, or owned hardware, and a stay-plan-move decision framework.