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Dora Noda

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Your MCP Server Doesn't Know Who's Deploying. WorkOS's OAuth 2.1 Stack Fixes That
·Dora Noda·10 min

Your MCP Server Doesn't Know Who's Deploying. WorkOS's OAuth 2.1 Stack Fixes That

Most MCP servers still trust a bearer token in an env var. WorkOS's May 2026 OAuth 2.1 stack — CIMD, Resource Indicators, and on-behalf-of token exchange — finally answers the question a deploy-authority MCP server can't skip: which agent, acting for whom, just asked to ship to production?

Model Context Protocol
security
AI agents
self-hosting
+1
Zeabur's $5 'No Sleep' Credit vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box: What You're Actually Paying For
·Dora Noda·9 min

Zeabur's $5 'No Sleep' Credit vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box: What You're Actually Paying For

Zeabur's $5/month Dev plan sells freedom from cold-start sleep. A line-by-line recompute of what that $5 credit actually covers on Zeabur's metered RAM pricing versus a €4.35 Hetzner CX22 that was never billed by the minute at all.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
Blacksmith and Depot Colocate Docker Layer Cache on NVMe: What 40x Faster CI Builds Mean for Self-Hosted Build Pipelines
·Dora Noda·9 min

Blacksmith and Depot Colocate Docker Layer Cache on NVMe: What 40x Faster CI Builds Mean for Self-Hosted Build Pipelines

Blacksmith and Depot claim 20x-40x faster Docker builds by moving the layer cache onto NVMe disk colocated with the build machine. Here's the actual mechanism, and what it means for a self-hosted PaaS that already owns its build hardware.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
cost-optimization
+1
Canine's MCP Server Can Deploy — Coolify's Still Can't: A Tool-by-Tool Audit
·Dora Noda·8 min

Canine's MCP Server Can Deploy — Coolify's Still Can't: A Tool-by-Tool Audit

Canine's built-in MCP server ships one write tool — DeployProject — where Coolify's stays fully read-only. Here's the exact tool list across Canine, Coolify, and Dokploy, and what Canine's Kubernetes-native architecture actually buys over each.

self-hosting
PaaS
Model Context Protocol
AI agents
+1
CAPMOX Is Maturing Fast: What a Real Cluster API Provider for Proxmox Means Beyond Hetzner-Only Node Pools
·Dora Noda·8 min

CAPMOX Is Maturing Fast: What a Real Cluster API Provider for Proxmox Means Beyond Hetzner-Only Node Pools

IONOS's CAPMOX shipped six releases in fifteen months of active development — here's what the changelog actually shows, how it provisions a node, who else is building the same thing, and what a second CAPI provider really costs a Hetzner-only fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
+1
CNCF's 19.9 Million Developers, +28% in Six Months: The Math That Says It's Not New Growth
·Dora Noda·8 min

CNCF's 19.9 Million Developers, +28% in Six Months: The Math That Says It's Not New Growth

CNCF says the cloud native developer population jumped 28% in six months to 19.9 million, with 7.3 million now AI developers. The arithmetic says that's not a wave of new developers — it's existing developers crossing a line, and it changes how fast a platform's agent golden path has to ship.

self-hosting
PaaS
engineering
AI
Cordyceps: How a Free GitHub Account Hijacked CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cordyceps: How a Free GitHub Account Hijacked CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare

A researcher with a free GitHub account and no org access could hijack CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare, Apache, and the Python Software Foundation. Here's what the Cordyceps vulnerability class actually does, and the audit checklist to run against your own build pipeline.

security
cybersecurity
PaaS
self-hosting
Firecracker MicroVMs for Multi-Tenant CI: What Per-Build Kernel Isolation Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·9 min

Firecracker MicroVMs for Multi-Tenant CI: What Per-Build Kernel Isolation Actually Costs

A shared-kernel build pod runs a tenant's arbitrary install scripts and Dockerfiles next to every other tenant's. Firecracker microVMs can close that gap per build — real numbers from BuildBuddy's production fleet included — but per-step isolation, which nobody has actually shipped, is a different and much worse trade.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
Kubernetes
The Postgres Backup Tool Anthropic and OpenAI Both Backed in the Same Month
·Dora Noda·8 min

The Postgres Backup Tool Anthropic and OpenAI Both Backed in the Same Month

Databasus out-starred pgBackRest, WAL-G, and Barman in 14 months, landed in the official PostgreSQL Software Catalogue, and got backed by both Anthropic and OpenAI's open-source programs in the same month. Here's what it actually is, and whether it belongs next to a Kubernetes-native Postgres fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
Kubernetes
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