1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Your Region No Longer Exists: What Fly.io Deleting 17 Regions Teaches About Cloud Lock-In
Fly.io retired 17 of its 35 regions in September 2025, forcing tenants in cities from Santiago to Hong Kong to move. A region-by-region accounting of what the forced migration cost — and why 'the vendor can delete your region' belongs on every platform exit checklist.
Gateway API v1.5 Is the Green Light for Day-One PaaS Routing — With Three Exceptions
Gateway API v1.5 moved ListenerSet, TLSRoute, and four more features to the stable channel. A verdict for platform teams: new clusters can build custom-domain and TLS routing on it today, with exactly three workloads that should wait.
GitHub Cut Hosted-Runner Prices 39%. Here Is the New Breakeven for Owning Your CI Runners
GitHub cut hosted-runner prices up to 39% in January 2026 while a proposed per-minute charge on self-hosted runners was shelved. Pricing both sides of CI — hosted meter versus an owned box running Tekton — puts the breakeven near 3,000 metered minutes a month.
Your Agent Wants Deploy Access. GitHub Just Showed What to Ask For First.
GitHub's Copilot app went GA with per-write permission prompts as the default and autopilot as the opt-in. What that validates about gating agent deploy, rollback, and scale calls — plus the 4-rung ladder and earned-autopilot path.
The GPU Isolation Fault Line: gVisor, Kata, and Edera Face Off Over Your Sandbox Pool
gVisor proxies CUDA calls, Kata hands the whole GPU to a VM, and Edera isolates tenants behind a hypervisor while sharing the card — what each model costs a self-hosted sandbox fleet in blast radius versus throughput, and which one to default to.
Heroku Fir Doesn't Take Docker: The Migration Audit for Teams Stranded Between Cedar and Fir
Heroku's Fir generation doesn't support Docker deploys and Cedar is frozen under sustaining engineering. A five-point audit for heroku.yml teams: what breaks, where container workloads go, and the real bill delta.
The Heroku-to-Kubernetes Discount Is Real. Here's Which Line Item Pays for It.
The same stack priced on Heroku, cloud Kubernetes, and owned Hetzner hardware across three workload sizes shows the 52-68% migration discount is real — and Postgres and Redis markup, not compute, pays for most of it.
Your 2 TB Backup Bill: $14 or $65? What Hetzner Object Storage Changes About Tenant Backups
Worked numbers at 500 GB, 2 TB, and 10 TB show Hetzner Object Storage and Backblaze B2 running tenant snapshots, build artifacts, and database dumps at roughly a fifth of AWS S3 — plus what same-provider restores buy on the worst night of the year.
Huly's Hosted Shutdown: The Complete Self-Host Migration for Your Project Data
Huly's hosted service wound down in July 2026 while its Docker images and self-host repo stayed maintained. A concrete walkthrough for moving your workspace to Dokploy, Coolify, or plain Compose — volumes, image pins, and the exit-strategy checklist every SaaS-dependent team should keep.