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Grafana 13's Loki Rewrite Cuts Log Storage Overhead From 2.3x to 1x — the Catch Is a New Kafka Dependency
·Dora Noda·9 min

Grafana 13's Loki Rewrite Cuts Log Storage Overhead From 2.3x to 1x — the Catch Is a New Kafka Dependency

Grafana 13's Loki rewrite drops effective log-replication overhead from 2.3x to roughly 1x and adds a one-command OpenTelemetry install — but distributed deployments now need a Kafka cluster, and the real trade-off is worth the arithmetic.

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Hetzner's US Regions Aren't a 2026 Launch — They're the Latency Objection Render and Railway Migrators Never Checked
·Dora Noda·8 min

Hetzner's US Regions Aren't a 2026 Launch — They're the Latency Objection Render and Railway Migrators Never Checked

Hetzner's Ashburn and Hillsboro regions have run production traffic since 2021 and 2022, not since 2026 — the real news is the latency and egress-cost math Render, Railway, and Fly.io migrators still haven't checked.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
cost-optimization
Hetzner Placement Groups and Cluster API: What Guarantees Your Control-Plane Anti-Affinity, and Why Autoscaled Workers Still Don't Get It
·Dora Noda·8 min

Hetzner Placement Groups and Cluster API: What Guarantees Your Control-Plane Anti-Affinity, and Why Autoscaled Workers Still Don't Get It

Hetzner's Placement Groups guarantee up to 10 VMs land on 10 different physical hosts — a free API primitive live since 2021. CAPH already wires it into control-plane provisioning. The Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler's Hetzner provider still can't, three years into an open feature request.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Hetzner Wants 50 Hectares in Bavaria to Build Its Own Power Plant: What Vertically Integrated Solar Would Mean for Your Hosting Bill
·Dora Noda·8 min

Hetzner Wants 50 Hectares in Bavaria to Build Its Own Power Plant: What Vertically Integrated Solar Would Mean for Your Hosting Bill

Hetzner is evaluating 50 hectares in Bavaria for a solar-powered datacenter, the second step after its HT Clean Energy solar venture — what's actually built versus still a land inquiry, and why grid-connection queues and volatile industrial power pricing, not marketing, are driving it.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
cost-optimization
Highlight.io's Shutdown Is a Governance Checklist Your Observability Stack Needs
·Dora Noda·10 min

Highlight.io's Shutdown Is a Governance Checklist Your Observability Stack Needs

Highlight.io shut down as a standalone open-source tool on February 28, 2026 after LaunchDarkly acquired it. A five-question governance checklist backtested against Highlight itself, then scored against GlitchTip and SigNoz.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
The Jscrambler npm Backdoor Beat npm's 3-Day-Old Fix — What That Means for Your Build Pipeline's Secrets
·Dora Noda·10 min

The Jscrambler npm Backdoor Beat npm's 3-Day-Old Fix — What That Means for Your Build Pipeline's Secrets

A compromised Jscrambler npm release beat npm 12's new install-script defaults within three days, stealing CI credentials and AI tool configs. Here's the build-pipeline architecture — platform-enforced script policy, egress-denied sandboxes, ephemeral scoped credentials — that actually closes the gap.

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self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
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IPVS Is Deprecated in Kubernetes 1.35: What Actually Changes When kube-proxy Moves to nftables
·Dora Noda·9 min

IPVS Is Deprecated in Kubernetes 1.35: What Actually Changes When kube-proxy Moves to nftables

Kubernetes 1.35 deprecates IPVS proxy mode in favor of nftables. Here's the concrete before/after — the load-balancing algorithm you lose, the conntrack behavior shift, and a node-by-node rollout sequence — for migrating a self-hosted fleet's kube-proxy before the next cluster upgrade.

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PaaS
infrastructure
migration
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Dynamic Resource Allocation Comes of Age in Kubernetes 1.36: Scheduling GPUs Declaratively Instead of Renting a Managed Tier
·Dora Noda·10 min

Dynamic Resource Allocation Comes of Age in Kubernetes 1.36: Scheduling GPUs Declaratively Instead of Renting a Managed Tier

Kubernetes 1.36 matures Dynamic Resource Allocation's GPU-scheduling features right as Fly.io kills its GPU line — here's what DeviceClass and ResourceClaim actually replace, and the real cost math between owning a Hetzner GPU and renting one by the second.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
AI
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Kubernetes Just Deprecated externalIPs. Here's the Exact Migration Path for Bare Metal
·Dora Noda·8 min

Kubernetes Just Deprecated externalIPs. Here's the Exact Migration Path for Bare Metal

Kubernetes 1.36 deprecated Service externalIPs over a security hole the project never patched. Here's the exact four-stage removal timeline and the commands to migrate a bare-metal fleet to MetalLB before the default flips in 1.40.

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PaaS
security
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