pgBackRest Got Archived, Then Rescued: The Bus-Factor Checklist Every Self-Hosted Postgres Backup Stack Needs
pgBackRest's repo went read-only in April 2026 after its corporate sponsor was sold, then a nine-company coalition revived it three weeks later. Here's the five-question checklist that story exposes, applied to the two real backup paths a CloudNativePG operator can choose today.
Dokploy Passed CapRover's GitHub Stars in Two Years, Not Nine
CapRover took nearly nine years to reach 15,109 GitHub stars. Dokploy passed that number in about two. The GitHub API data, and the Docker Compose gap behind it, explain why.
Dokploy Ships Four Buildpack Backends: What Buildpack Plurality Buys a Git-Push Platform Over Picking One
Dokploy runs four separate buildpack backends side by side. A concrete look at what that plurality costs in real bugs, which languages each one actually covers, and whether a self-hosted PaaS should copy the model or pick one.
Backstage's 89% Market Share Hides a 10% Adoption Problem
Backstage owns 89% of the IDP market but gets opened by about 10% of eligible engineers at a typical adopter. Here's what the plugin-upgrade tax behind that gap means for any platform's golden-path bet.
Convex's FSL License Bans Building a Competitor: What 'Open, Except to Compete With Us' Actually Costs You
Convex's backend is source-available under the Functional Source License — free to self-host, but banned from powering a competing hosted product for two years. Here's what that non-compete clause actually forecloses, concretely, versus a plain Apache-2.0 license.
DX's 13-Minutes-Per-Point Number: What a 40,000-Developer Panel Actually Proves About Golden-Path ROI
DX's headline claim is that each one-point DXI gain saves 13 minutes a developer a week — a number from a 40,000-developer survey panel, not a stopwatch. Here's what it actually proves, what it can't, and the instrumented time-to-first-deploy metric a self-hosted platform can measure instead.
Fake Client vs envtest vs Testcontainers K3s: The Real Cost of Testing a Cluster API Controller
envtest runs a real Kubernetes API server but no controller-manager, so garbage collection never actually fires in your tests. Here's what that gap costs a Cluster API controller, and where Testcontainers' K3s module actually closes it.
Building a Bex Golden Path in Backstage: A Working Software Template, Not a Wiki Page
A hands-on walkthrough of building a real Backstage Software Template — template.yaml, a custom scaffolder action, and the generated manifest — that scaffolds a service straight onto a self-hosted PaaS fleet, no wiki page required.
CloudNativePG 1.30's DatabaseRole CRD and Lease Election: What Changes for a Self-Hosted PaaS's Postgres Layer
CloudNativePG 1.30 ships a declarative DatabaseRole CRD and a Lease-based primary election, plus two CVE fixes, right as the 1.28.x line hits end of life — here's what that concretely changes for a PaaS running CNPG as its own managed-Postgres engine.