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How we built zero-downtime deployments for every service type

Rolling deploys sound simple until you try to do them correctly across web services, background workers, cron jobs, and stateful databases simultaneously. Here's the full architecture and what we learned the hard way.

Sarah Kim

Co-founder & CTO

April 8, 202612 min read

How Calico network policies isolate tenants on shared hosting

Shared Kubernetes does not have to mean shared trust boundaries. Calico enforces network isolation, Linkerd provides automatic mTLS between services, and Falco detects runtime threats, three layers that keep tenants separated on shared infrastructure.

Sarah Kim

SecurityMay 15, 202616 min read

Shared platform vs dedicated clusters: control plane isolation and policy-as-code

Policy-as-code on a shared platform gives you guardrails without operational overhead. Dedicated clusters add an isolated control plane, single-tenant nodes, and customer-owned policy boundaries, here is how to choose and what changes under the hood.

Priya Patel

SecurityMay 18, 202618 min read

Regulatory compliance and data governance on StackBlaze

SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA-readiness, data residency, encryption, audit logs, and DPAs, a detailed map of how StackBlaze controls align with common regulatory frameworks and what you own vs what the platform certifies.

Nina Okoye

ProductJune 5, 202611 min read

Best Heroku alternatives in 2026

Heroku ended its free tier in 2022 and never brought it back. Here are the platforms teams actually switch to, compared on price, databases, and day-two ops.

Marcus Rivera

ProductJune 2, 20269 min read

StackBlaze vs Render: which PaaS fits your team?

Same $7/mo entry price, very different day-two experience. We compare sleep policies, databases, networking, and who should pick which.

Marcus Rivera

ProductMay 29, 20268 min read

StackBlaze vs Railway: flat pricing vs usage-based

Railway is fast to start; StackBlaze is easier to budget. We compare billing models, previews, and who wins at production scale.

Marcus Rivera

ProductMay 30, 20268 min read

StackBlaze vs Fly.io: managed PaaS vs DIY edge

Fly.io is powerful if you love flyctl. StackBlaze is for teams who want git-push deploys, a full dashboard, and managed databases without learning Machines API.

Marcus Rivera

ProductMay 31, 20269 min read

StackBlaze vs Vercel: full-stack platform vs frontend host

Vercel excels at Next.js edge delivery. StackBlaze runs your API, workers, cron jobs, and databases alongside your frontend in one project.

Marcus Rivera

ProductMay 26, 202610 min read

The true cost of PaaS hosting (and how to avoid bill shock)

Headline $7/mo is never the full story. Here is how dynos, databases, egress, and autoscaling compound, and what to look for in a platform.

Marcus Rivera

ProductMay 23, 202612 min read

Managed Postgres hosting compared (2026 buyer's guide)

Backups, PITR, connection limits, and pricing tiers, how StackBlaze, Heroku, Render, Railway, and RDS-style options stack up for production apps.

Priya Patel

EngineeringMay 15, 202610 min read

Observability beyond metrics: logs, traces, and alerts that actually help

CPU graphs tell you something broke. Structured logs and distributed traces tell you why. Here is how we wired observability into every StackBlaze service by default.

Sarah Kim

TutorialsMay 10, 202613 min read

The complete guide to blueprint.yaml

One file defines your web services, databases, workers, cron jobs, and environment wiring. Here is every field and how teams use them in production.

Tom Walsh

TutorialsMay 2, 20268 min read

Cron jobs and background workers on StackBlaze

Scheduled tasks and queue consumers are first-class services, not hacks on top of a web dyno. Here is how to run them reliably.

Tom Walsh

TutorialsApril 18, 20269 min read

Migrating from Heroku to StackBlaze

A practical checklist for moving web dynos, Postgres, Redis, and config vars, without a big-bang cutover weekend.

Tom Walsh

TutorialsApril 12, 20268 min read

Redis caching patterns that work in production

Cache-aside, TTL discipline, and stampede prevention, with managed Redis on the private network and zero egress fees.

Priya Patel

ProductApril 3, 20264 min read

Announcing PR preview environments

Every pull request now gets its own live URL automatically. No config required.

Alex Chen

EngineeringMarch 28, 20269 min read

Point-in-time recovery: what it actually means for your data

We built PITR into every managed database. Here's the architecture that makes it work at scale.

Priya Patel

CompanyMarch 20, 20266 min read

Why we ship fast even when it feels uncomfortable

Our approach to iteration, how we handle mistakes in public, and why we think perfectionism is a trap.

Alex Chen

TutorialsMarch 14, 20265 min read

Deploy a production Next.js app in 90 seconds

Connect a GitHub repo, attach a Postgres database, and go live - all in under two minutes.

Tom Walsh

EngineeringMarch 6, 202614 min read

Inside StackBlaze's private networking layer

How we built a 100 Gbps isolated fabric that connects services with sub-millisecond latency without a VPN.

Sarah Kim

ProductFeb 27, 20267 min read

Autoscaling without bill surprises

We redesigned autoscaling with hard spend caps and clear previews of what scaling will cost before you enable it.

Marcus Rivera

TutorialsFeb 18, 202611 min read

Building a RAG chatbot with pgvector on StackBlaze

Step-by-step guide to deploying a retrieval-augmented generation app with a pgvector-powered embedding store.

Priya Patel

CompanyFeb 1, 20265 min read

We raised our Series A

We've raised $18M to build the developer cloud that should have existed years ago. Here's what we're building next.

Alex Chen