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Explore the stories, insights, and expert advice behind Sevalla's PaaS solutions, featuring the Sevalla team and occasional guest contributors from the industry.
The true cost of owning your Laravel infrastructure
The AWS bill is the smallest part of what self-managed infrastructure costs your team. Here is the full ledger most engineering leads have never added up.
·by Steve McDougallMost teams don't want infrastructure ownership anymore
Development teams adopted hyperscaler infrastructure for flexibility, then inherited an operational burden they never wanted.
·by Kevin DownsProduction ready means something different than you think
Engineering leads convinced that self-managed AWS complexity is the price of production readiness are using a definition written by AWS, not by the teams shipping software on top of it.
·by Steve McDougallBuilding apps with Sevalla and Claude Code as a non-technical person
A technical writer at Sevalla built two production apps using Claude Code and the Sevalla MCP server without being a developer.
·by Caroline CoyneCloud primitives are not a hosting strategy
Most teams on AWS have an accumulation of cloud primitives, not a hosting strategy. The difference is costing your team more than it looks.
·by Steve McDougall