1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
GitHub Actions Goes Down and So Do Your Deploys: Designing a Git-Push Deploy Path That Survives an August 2026-Style GitHub Outage
On August 6, 2026, a nine-hour GitHub Actions outage froze builds, webhooks, and Pages publishes — including teams on self-hosted runners. This guide maps the blast radius and lays out a five-piece git-push deploy path that keeps shipping when the forge goes dark.
Heroku Alternatives in 2026: Auditing the Render vs Railway vs Fly.io Rankings, Priced to the Dollar
Render, Railway, and Fly.io top every Heroku-alternatives ranking in 2026. This audit stress-tests each platform's claims against a real Heroku exit and prices the same workload four ways, including a flat-rate Hetzner baseline.
Heroku Wants $140+/mo for Your Django App. Fly.io Does It for $15–$35: Pricing a Django Exit in 2026
A production Django stack — web, Celery worker, scheduler, Postgres, Redis — bills $140+/mo on Heroku against $15–$35 on Fly.io. A line-by-line recompute across Render, Railway, Fly.io, and flat-rate Hetzner, plus the migration costs and sensitivity cases that move the ranking.
Heroku to Kubernetes With Near-Zero Downtime: What Migration Services Sell vs. What the Cutover Requires
A service-by-service read of Qovery's modernization roundup: consultancies and hyperscalers run the cutover, platforms own day two, and the only honest downtime number is a minutes-long database write pause — plus what the same stack costs on owned hardware.
Kubernetes 1.37 Makes HPA Scale-to-Zero Default: Do You Still Need KEDA or Knative?
Kubernetes 1.37 graduates HPA scale-to-zero to beta and enables it by default. What minReplicas 0 replaces, the two gaps that keep KEDA and Knative in the stack, and a worked cost comparison for idle tenants.
Komodo vs Coolify vs Dokploy: What GPL-3.0 With No Server Cap Actually Buys You
Komodo manages unlimited servers under GPL-3.0 with no paid tier — RBAC and 2FA included. A head-to-head with Coolify, Dokploy, and Portainer on what that license guarantees, what it costs, and where manage-the-boxes stops short of provisioning.
Koyeb vs Sevalla in Late 2026: Serverless Scale-to-Zero vs $5 Instances vs a Flat Hetzner Box
The same small production app — web service, Postgres, Redis, 100 GB egress — priced on Koyeb, Sevalla, and a Hetzner box: ~$184 vs ~$209 vs ~$7 a month, plus the workload shapes where scale-to-zero beats flat instances and the crossover that flips the winner.
Kubernetes Gets Its Own Agent Sandbox: What the Sandbox CRD Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
Kubernetes SIG Apps shipped a Sandbox CRD for running AI agents as isolated, stateful workloads. Here is what warm pools, snapshot resume, and pluggable gVisor/Kata isolation mean for teams running their own PaaS, and the gaps to track before adopting it.
The Kubernetes Integration Tax, Itemized: What Prometheus, Cilium, and the Rest Really Cost a Two-Person Platform Team
An itemized accounting of self-hosted Kubernetes: what Cilium, Prometheus, TLS, GitOps, backups, upgrades, and policy cost a two-person team in setup and quarterly maintenance hours, converted to dollars and set against a $23–54 hosted PaaS bill.