1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
KubeCon Japan 2026 Sold Out Again: What It Signals for a Hetzner-Only Fleet's APAC Roadmap
KubeCon Japan 2026 sold out for the second straight year. What the six-track lineup and Japan's enterprise demand data say about APAC appetite for Kubernetes — and the latency math a Hetzner-only fleet must face before expanding east of Singapore.
Preview Environments Are a Cost Problem Before They're a Feature: The 50-PR Math on Auto-Sleep and Auto-Destroy
At 50 concurrent PRs, always-on preview environments burn about $2,850 a month. Auto-sleep cuts the compute line, scale-to-zero database branches cut the data tier, and auto-destroy kills the 30% orphan drag — taking the bill to roughly $650. The line-by-line math, plus the three defaults a self-hosted platform should enforce.
Railpack Is Railway's Default Builder: What the Nixpacks-to-BuildKit Rewrite Teaches Self-Hosted PaaS Builders
Railway replaced Nixpacks with Railpack, a Go rewrite on raw BuildKit, cutting base images 38-77%. A look at what broke, what the numbers prove, and what CNB-based self-hosters should borrow — plus where the Dockerfile escape hatch still wins.
Railway's May 2026 GCP Blackout: What an 8-Hour Outage Reveals About a Control Plane That Never Actually Left Google Cloud
Google suspended Railway's production account and healthy bare-metal workloads went dark for eight hours — because the control plane routing them never left GCP. A timeline of the cascade and a seven-question audit for your own platform.
Railway Retired Nixpacks for Railpack: What Changed in the Zero-Config Build Path
Railway replaced Nixpacks with Railpack after 14 million builds exposed the cost of approximate versions and monolithic image layers. A before-and-after of the auto-detect build path, why Cloud Native Buildpacks lost twice, and what platform builders should steal.
Render Cut Median Builds 40% With Faster Hardware: Reproducing 38s-to-21s on Owned Hetzner Build Nodes
Render cut median service builds from 38 to 21 seconds with faster hardware. A costed playbook for matching that 40% cut on owned Hetzner machines with one shared BuildKit builder and cache-first levers — no fleet-wide upgrade required.
Seven Months to Self-Host an AI Stack That Was Supposed to Take a Weekend: What OpenMake's Post-Mortem Bills Against a PaaS
OpenMake's seven-month self-hosting retrospective comes with receipts: four changelog bugs and a Node-plus-Postgres-plus-Docker stack. A worked Year 1 comparison shows VPS savings evaporating after two days of engineering time — and why Kubernetes wouldn't have shortened the seven months, but a PaaS deploy surface would have.
Your .com Renews at $10.97 in November: The Tenant Domain Bill Your PaaS Can't Automate Away
Verisign raises wholesale .com prices to $10.97 on November 1, 2026, while uncapped registries reprice at will — .info is up 75% since 2019. Here is what tenants actually pay per domain, what a self-hosted PaaS automates to zero, and the registrar bill no platform can touch.
Toward a World Where Builds Don't Exist: What Railway's VM-Powered Thesis Gives Up in Provenance
Railway wants a world where builds don't exist and your app is just live. But the build produces the digest, SBOM, provenance, and rollback artifact that incident response and the EU's new reporting rules depend on — here is the full inventory of what disappears with it.