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A2A Turns One and Hits v1.0: What a Standard Agent-to-Agent Handshake Actually Buys a Deploy-From-Chat Pipeline
·Dora Noda·8 min

A2A Turns One and Hits v1.0: What a Standard Agent-to-Agent Handshake Actually Buys a Deploy-From-Chat Pipeline

A2A hit v1.0 and 150+ organizations in its first year under the Linux Foundation. Here's a worked example of what its signed Agent Cards and task-approval states actually change for a deploy pipeline where one agent requests a rollback and another approves it — and whether a self-hosted PaaS's MCP server needs to speak it yet.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
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Your Agent's Shell and Your Tenant's Container Cannot Share a Blast Radius
·Dora Noda·8 min

Your Agent's Shell and Your Tenant's Container Cannot Share a Blast Radius

A concrete node-pool, network-policy, and runtime-class architecture for keeping an AI agent's shell isolated from the tenant container it's deploying and operating.

security
infrastructure
self-hosting
AI
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AgentBox Puts a Bare Hetzner VM on the Same Feature Table as E2B and Daytona
·Dora Noda·9 min

AgentBox Puts a Bare Hetzner VM on the Same Feature Table as E2B and Daytona

AgentBox, a 247-star MIT CLI, already lists a bare Hetzner box next to E2B and Daytona on its provider table. A teardown of its checkpoint and credential-isolation mechanisms — and what a Cluster-API fleet should borrow versus build on kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox instead.

self-hosting
PaaS
AI
infrastructure
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Anubis Crosses 20,000 Stars: What Self-Hosting Your Own AI-Scraper Defense Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·9 min

Anubis Crosses 20,000 Stars: What Self-Hosting Your Own AI-Scraper Defense Actually Costs

Anubis's proof-of-work challenge crossed 20,000 GitHub stars fighting AI scrapers — here's what it actually costs in compute versus what its JavaScript requirement costs real visitors, and whether a self-hosted PaaS should bundle it.

security
cybersecurity
PaaS
self-hosting
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Beam's Beta9 Is the Only Self-Hostable E2B Alternative Left Standing
·Dora Noda·8 min

Beam's Beta9 Is the Only Self-Hostable E2B Alternative Left Standing

E2B and Daytona's sandbox pricing landed on the exact same number in 2026. Then Daytona announced it's going closed-source. A concrete look at what's left of the self-hostable AI-agent sandbox category, and why Beam's open-source Beta9 engine is the one still standing.

self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
AI
Cilium's eBPF Egress Gateway: The Stable Outbound IP Without the $0.135/GB NAT Tax
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cilium's eBPF Egress Gateway: The Stable Outbound IP Without the $0.135/GB NAT Tax

AWS charges $0.135/GB for a stable outbound IP through a NAT gateway. Cilium's eBPF-based Egress Gateway does the same job as a Kubernetes CRD, and on an owned Hetzner fleet it costs nothing beyond the node you already run.

infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
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Cilium Tetragon Hits Production Maturity: What Kernel-Level eBPF Enforcement Adds to a Self-Hosted PaaS's Sandbox
·Dora Noda·8 min

Cilium Tetragon Hits Production Maturity: What Kernel-Level eBPF Enforcement Adds to a Self-Hosted PaaS's Sandbox

Tetragon 1.4 cleared the rough edges on policy authoring in February 2026. Here's what its in-kernel enforcement actually adds on top of a gVisor/Kata sandbox boundary — with a real TracingPolicy that kills an escape attempt before it lands.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
infrastructure
Cloud Native Buildpacks Ship SBOMs by Default: What a Build-Time Bill of Materials Gets You That a Scanner Never Can
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cloud Native Buildpacks Ship SBOMs by Default: What a Build-Time Bill of Materials Gets You That a Scanner Never Can

Cloud Native Buildpacks generate a CycloneDX/SPDX bill of materials as a build-time side effect, populated from dependencies the buildpack actually resolved and installed. A Dockerfile pipeline's nearest equivalent, Docker BuildKit's SBOM attestation, scans the finished image instead — and misses build-stage-only dependencies right when the EU CRA's September 2026 reporting deadline makes that gap expensive.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
compliance
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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
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