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The NSA Just Published a Threat Model for MCP: What It Means for Your Deploy Agent
·Dora Noda·9 min

The NSA Just Published a Threat Model for MCP: What It Means for Your Deploy Agent

The NSA's AI Security Center named four structural risks in MCP's design — and every one already has a real 2026 incident behind it. Here's what each means concretely for a self-hosted MCP server with deploy and rollback authority.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
security
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Gitpod Bet the Company on Self-Hosted Agent Infra — Then OpenAI Bought It
·Dora Noda·8 min

Gitpod Bet the Company on Self-Hosted Agent Infra — Then OpenAI Bought It

Gitpod rebranded to Ona and went self-hosted-only in September 2025. Nine months later OpenAI bought it for Codex. Here's what a hyperscaler choosing to buy customer-owned execution instead of building it actually signals.

AI agents
self-hosting
openai
acquisitions
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pgBackRest Got Archived, Then Rescued: The Bus-Factor Checklist Every Self-Hosted Postgres Backup Stack Needs
·Dora Noda·8 min

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.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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Railway's New MCP Server Has 7 Tools. bex's Shipped One Has 13 — and Still Can't Deploy
·Dora Noda·9 min

Railway's New MCP Server Has 7 Tools. bex's Shipped One Has 13 — and Still Can't Deploy

Railway's remote MCP server ships 7 tools and a one-line agent install; bex's already-shipped MCP server exposes 13. Here's what each actually lets an agent do unattended, and the one deploy verb bex still owes its own roadmap.

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self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
+1
The Self-Hosted PaaS Category Gets Crowded in 2026: What Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy Actually Don't Do
·Dora Noda·10 min

The Self-Hosted PaaS Category Gets Crowded in 2026: What Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy Actually Don't Do

Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy now cover the self-hosted PaaS category from every angle. A grounded look at the three things none of them do — and the real cost of the Kubernetes-native alternative that does.

PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
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SNCF Rebuilt Its Cloud-Native Platform on Cluster API — Here's What Changed
·Dora Noda·8 min

SNCF Rebuilt Its Cloud-Native Platform on Cluster API — Here's What Changed

CNCF gave SNCF its 2026 Top End User Award for a Cluster API rebuild that cut cluster provisioning from a month to 30 minutes and production incidents by 90%. Here's the stack, the before/after numbers, and what it proves about running Cluster API at production stakes.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
cloud computing
What a Zanzibar-Style Relationship Graph Buys a Deploy MCP Server Over a Scoped API Key
·Dora Noda·9 min

What a Zanzibar-Style Relationship Graph Buys a Deploy MCP Server Over a Scoped API Key

AuthZed is pitching SpiceDB's relationship-graph authorization for AI agents. Here's the actual SpiceDB schema for a deploy/rollback MCP server, what it can check that a scoped API key can't, and whether running it is worth the operational cost.

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AI agents
self-hosting
security
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The $2 Million Threshold: What Building Your Own Platform Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·9 min

The $2 Million Threshold: What Building Your Own Platform Actually Costs

A cloud bill supposedly needs to hit $2M a year before building your own platform beats renting one — except that $2M is platform-team payroll, not an infrastructure bill, and running a self-hosted PaaS on owned hardware gets the same capability for roughly a third to two-thirds of the cost.

cost-optimization
PaaS
self-hosting
engineering
Windsurf Split Into Three Companies in a Week — Then the Brand Died Too
·Dora Noda·8 min

Windsurf Split Into Three Companies in a Week — Then the Brand Died Too

OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal collapsed, Google took the founders for $2.4B, and Cognition bought the rest for $250M — all in one week. Eleven months later even the brand was gone. Here's why building your deploy workflow on an open protocol beats betting on any single agent vendor's survival.

Windsurf
AI
acquisitions
self-hosting
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