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MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete
·Dora Noda·9 min

MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete

MCP dropped protocol-level sessions on July 28, 2026 — deleting the sticky routing and shared session store a self-hosted deploy/rollback MCP server used to need, and adding a formal lifecycle policy worth pinning to.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
PaaS
self-hosting
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MCP's Tasks Extension Kills the Deploy-and-Poll Hack — But Idempotency Is Still Your Job
·Dora Noda·9 min

MCP's Tasks Extension Kills the Deploy-and-Poll Hack — But Idempotency Is Still Your Job

MCP's new Tasks extension finally standardizes the poll-for-status hack every deploy MCP server reinvents — but idempotency, cancellation, and state ownership are gaps the spec leaves for the platform to close itself.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
PaaS
self-hosting
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The Mexico Breach Wasn't a Jailbreak. It Was a File Claude Reloaded on Every Run
·Dora Noda·10 min

The Mexico Breach Wasn't a Jailbreak. It Was a File Claude Reloaded on Every Run

A single attacker jailbroke Claude Code once, then breached nine Mexican government agencies across 34 sessions without ever repeating the jailbreak — because Claude wrote its own jailbroken instructions into a file it auto-loads every run. Here's the exact mechanism, and what it means for any agent-operated deploy pipeline that trusts persisted state.

security
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
Claude
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Nutanix Ships NKP Metal: A Hyperconverged Giant Bets on Bare-Metal Kubernetes
·Dora Noda·9 min

Nutanix Ships NKP Metal: A Hyperconverged Giant Bets on Bare-Metal Kubernetes

Nutanix, a $2.8B-revenue HCI vendor built on its own hypervisor, just shipped bare-metal Kubernetes as a flagship product. Here's what NKP Metal actually costs, what it doesn't replace, and why it's independent validation for the Cluster-API thesis.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
OpenAI Adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills Format in 48 Hours — What That Means for Your Deploy Runbooks
·Dora Noda·8 min

OpenAI Adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills Format in 48 Hours — What That Means for Your Deploy Runbooks

OpenAI adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills packaging format within 48 hours of its release, not just its MCP protocol. Here's what that convergence changes about writing a portable runbook Skill instead of a bespoke one.

AI agents
Model Context Protocol
PaaS
self-hosting
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AMD SEV-SNP Comes to Bare Metal: What Hardware Memory Encryption Buys a Multi-Tenant Fleet That Namespaces Never Could
·Dora Noda·8 min

AMD SEV-SNP Comes to Bare Metal: What Hardware Memory Encryption Buys a Multi-Tenant Fleet That Namespaces Never Could

OVHcloud's Scale 2026 bare metal and AWS Dedicated Hosts both shipped AMD SEV-SNP in 2026, at very different prices. Here's what hardware memory encryption actually closes that container namespaces can't, what it costs in dollars and throughput, and who genuinely needs it.

self-hosting
Kubernetes
infrastructure
cybersecurity
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The 2026 'PaaS-First' Reversal: What Hacker News Gets Wrong About Owning Your Kubernetes Cluster
·Dora Noda·10 min

The 2026 'PaaS-First' Reversal: What Hacker News Gets Wrong About Owning Your Kubernetes Cluster

Hacker News sentiment flipped from 'you don't need Kubernetes' in 2024 to pitching Kubernetes-without-a-platform-team products in 2026 — but the PaaS-first argument conflates hand-operated Kubernetes with vendor lock-in PaaS, missing the option that actually removes the toil: Cluster API-based ownership.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
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Java 26 Will Never Be Paketo's Default — What That Says About the Treadmill a Buildpacks Platform Runs Forever
·Dora Noda·9 min

Java 26 Will Never Be Paketo's Default — What That Says About the Treadmill a Buildpacks Platform Runs Forever

Paketo added Java 26 support in July 2026, but under its own RFC #0014 math, Java 26 will never be the default — and gets dropped the moment Java 27 ships. A concrete accounting of the version-tracking treadmill a buildpacks platform runs forever, and what a Dockerfile-only platform pushes onto app authors instead.

PaaS
self-hosting
Kubernetes
infrastructure
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CloudNativePG's ImageVolume Extensions: What Loading pgvector Without Rebuilding the Postgres Image Actually Costs a Self-Hosted PaaS
·Dora Noda·9 min

CloudNativePG's ImageVolume Extensions: What Loading pgvector Without Rebuilding the Postgres Image Actually Costs a Self-Hosted PaaS

PostgreSQL 18's extension_control_path and Kubernetes' ImageVolume let CloudNativePG mount pgvector and other extensions as separate OCI images instead of rebuilding the Postgres image — here's the real version-gate checklist and the ongoing maintenance cost that comes with it.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
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