by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Guides
There was a time when deploying an app meant git push heroku main and walking away. Then Heroku killed its free tier, and the platforms that replaced it learned the same trick: Vercel, Railway, and the rest bill per seat and per usage, and the number on the invoice...
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 13, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Google Photos hands you 15 GB for free, and then the meter starts. The storage you share across Gmail and Drive fills up faster every year, the upsell to a paid tier arrives on schedule, and somewhere in the fine print your decade of family photographs is being...
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 13, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Firebase is wonderful right up until the invoice arrives. It bills you for reads, for writes, for storage, for bandwidth — a dozen metered dimensions that stay invisible while you build and then spike at the worst possible moment: the month your app actually succeeds....
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 13, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Every audio file you send to a cloud transcription API is a recording of a human voice leaving your control. A client call, a team meeting, a doctor’s dictation, a voicemail — it travels to someone else’s servers, gets processed under someone else’s...
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 12, 2026 | Developer Guides
“Rails needs a VPS” is one of those pieces of hosting folklore that refuses to die. It was true a decade ago, when shared platforms had no sane way to run a persistent Ruby process. It is not true anymore. A typical Rails application — a portfolio, a...