1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
E2B Ended 30-Day Sandbox Deletion — What a Self-Hosted Sandbox Should Still Do Differently
E2B quietly replaced its 30-day paused-sandbox deletion with indefinite retention — but the 1-hour and 24-hour runtime caps, the 5-minute kill-by-default timeout, and the sandbox-is-storage coupling remain. A concrete teardown of what those limits cost long-running agent workflows, plus four lifecycle policies a self-hosted sandbox should set differently.
Every PaaS Ships an MCP Server Now: Dokploy vs. Railway in the Agent-Interface Race
Dokploy mirrors all 508 API endpoints as MCP tools while Railway curates ten hosted tools plus a TypeScript deploy-your-own guide — an operation-by-operation comparison across deploy, logs, env, and rollback, and the nine-item checklist a self-hosted Render-compatible MCP surface must clear.
Weaveworks Died. Flux Didn't: The Community-Run GitOps Comeback vs Argo CD's Hub-and-Spoke
Two years after Weaveworks shut down, Flux CD ships v2.9.5 backed by Microsoft, GitLab, and ControlPlane — we audit the comeback evidence and compare its toolkit model against Argo CD's hub-and-spoke for self-hosted platforms.
The Fly-Plus-Neon Stack: What an 8,700 km Gap Between App and Database Really Costs
A real 2026 production stack ran Fly.io compute in Johannesburg against Neon Postgres in Frankfurt. We total both bills, budget the 150 ms latency floor, and price the consolidated alternative.
Stopped Is Not Free: The Fly.io Preview-Environment Bill You Have to Delete
Fly.io bills stopped Machines 15 cents per GB-month for root filesystem plus volumes and snapshots with no auto-expiry — a 30-day model for 10, 50, and 100 dormant previews, and the destroy-path checklist that returns each cohort to zero.
Kubernetes Dashboard Is Dead — Headlamp's Knative and Volcano Plugins Turn It Into a Platform Workbench
Headlamp shipped Knative and Volcano plugins alongside its Cluster API views in June 2026, months after the Kubernetes Dashboard was archived. Here is what each plugin surfaces — traffic-split editing, effective autoscaling, gang-scheduling blockers — and what one RBAC-aware console means for a small team running clusters it owns.
Mimir vs Cortex vs Thanos: Picking the Multi-Tenant Metrics Backend for a PaaS That Bills by Usage
Mimir, Cortex, and Thanos compared as the multi-tenant metrics backend for a self-hosted PaaS that bills by usage — per-tenant cardinality isolation, cost attribution for chargeback, and owned-capacity footprint, with a decision table.
CNCF Says MCP Gateways Belong in the Platform. Here's What That Actually Requires
MCP gateways are now a CNCF Platform Engineering 2.0 pillar. Here's what a gateway does that an ad-hoc MCP server doesn't — OAuth 2.1 auth, per-caller rate limits, deny-by-default tool scoping, poisoning detection — and how much of it a self-hosted PaaS control plane already absorbs.
Unlimited Apps, One Flat Bill: What PocketBaseCloud's $25 Show HN Pitch Reveals About Per-Project Pricing
PocketBaseCloud's Show HN offers unlimited small apps on a $25 flat slice — we work the N-app math against Supabase per-project metering, Vercel usage billing, and a $6 self-hosted box.