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Dora Noda

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Cloudflare's $25 Workers for Platforms Fee vs. Your Own Kubernetes Namespaces: The Real Per-Tenant Math
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cloudflare's $25 Workers for Platforms Fee vs. Your Own Kubernetes Namespaces: The Real Per-Tenant Math

Cloudflare's Workers for Platforms bills $42.80 a month for 500 metered tenants — your own Kubernetes namespaces on owned Hetzner boxes cost $85. Here's the line-by-line math, and the exact traffic threshold where the answer flips.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
Cloudflare Workers Bills $51, Vercel Bills $1,640: The Real Math Behind a 32x Edge-Compute Gap
·Dora Noda·8 min

Cloudflare Workers Bills $51, Vercel Bills $1,640: The Real Math Behind a 32x Edge-Compute Gap

A worked 100M-request comparison using Cloudflare's and Vercel's own 2026 rate cards: Cloudflare Workers lands at $51.40, Vercel's five metered dimensions land at $1,640.28 for the identical workload — and the gap comes apart into a rate premium, extra metered dimensions, and free-vs-billed bandwidth.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
CNCF's Score Spec Wants to Be the Portable Workload Manifest: Should a Git-Push PaaS Target score.yaml Instead of Inventing Its Own Config Format
·Dora Noda·9 min

CNCF's Score Spec Wants to Be the Portable Workload Manifest: Should a Git-Push PaaS Target score.yaml Instead of Inventing Its Own Config Format

Score's score.yaml promises one workload manifest that runs anywhere via pluggable provisioners. Here's the real schema, what a 2026 field review says it still can't express, and why a Cluster-API-native PaaS should treat it as an import path rather than its core config format.

PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
Only 41% of AI Developers Call Themselves Cloud Native — Here's the Concrete Chain of Concepts That's Keeping the Other 59% Out
·Dora Noda·8 min

Only 41% of AI Developers Call Themselves Cloud Native — Here's the Concrete Chain of Concepts That's Keeping the Other 59% Out

CNCF and SlashData found only 41% of professional AI developers self-identify as cloud native. Here's the actual prerequisite chain — Pods to CRDs to reconciliation loops — standing between an ML engineer and a running service, and where a git-push contract collapses it.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
AI
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Cozystack 1.4 Ships Fractional GPU Sharing — But the Real News Is a Cluster API Bet Built Differently Than bex's
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cozystack 1.4 Ships Fractional GPU Sharing — But the Real News Is a Cluster API Bet Built Differently Than bex's

Cozystack 1.4 shipped HAMi-powered fractional GPU sharing and a rewritten dashboard, but the real story is architectural: Kamaji-hosted control planes and KubeVirt VMs give every tenant a nested Kubernetes cluster — a fundamentally heavier Cluster API bet than a flat, container-only design like bex's. Here's what each buys and what it costs.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Depot's Colocated BuildKit Cache: What 2x-55x Faster Builds Actually Require
·Dora Noda·10 min

Depot's Colocated BuildKit Cache: What 2x-55x Faster Builds Actually Require

Depot's 2x-55x faster builds come from one architectural trick — keeping the Docker layer cache permanently colocated with the builder instead of fetching it over the network. Here's how it works, and how to build the same thing on your own Kubernetes fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
DigitalOcean Is Deprecating Legacy App Platform Plans With No Fixed Date: The Exact Bill Difference, Tier by Tier
·Dora Noda·8 min

DigitalOcean Is Deprecating Legacy App Platform Plans With No Fixed Date: The Exact Bill Difference, Tier by Tier

DigitalOcean's App Platform legacy plans — any app created before May 7, 2024 — are being deprecated with no fixed date attached. Here's the exact price and egress math across every tier, and what an undated migration means if you're not watching for it.

self-hosting
PaaS
migration
cost-optimization
Docker Kanvas Turns docker-compose.yml Into Kubernetes Manifests — Here's Exactly Where It Stops
·Dora Noda·9 min

Docker Kanvas Turns docker-compose.yml Into Kubernetes Manifests — Here's Exactly Where It Stops

Docker's new Kanvas tool converts docker-compose.yml into Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and more — but it never builds an image, pushes a registry, or places a workload on a fleet. Here's what that leaves for a git-push PaaS to build itself.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Dokploy's WebSocket Terminal Bug (CVE-2026-24841): One Exec Call, Root on Every Server It Manages
·Dora Noda·9 min

Dokploy's WebSocket Terminal Bug (CVE-2026-24841): One Exec Call, Root on Every Server It Manages

Inside Dokploy's CVSS 9.9 WebSocket terminal bug: the actual vulnerable code, why an argv-array fix only solves half the exploit path, and why the flaw reached every server the control plane manages over SSH, not just the local box.

security
cybersecurity
PaaS
self-hosting
+1
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