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SELinux Volume Labels in Kubernetes 1.36: Audit Your Multi-Tenant Storage Before 1.37
·Dora Noda·9 min

SELinux Volume Labels in Kubernetes 1.36: Audit Your Multi-Tenant Storage Before 1.37

Kubernetes 1.37 makes SELinux context mounts the default for eligible volumes. Audit CSI drivers, shared PVCs, and label conflicts before the upgrade leaves a Pod stuck in ContainerCreating.

Kubernetes
security
infrastructure
PaaS
+1
The .self TLD Bid: What a Human-First Domain Would—and Wouldn't—Change for Self-Hosted Apps
·Dora Noda·9 min

The .self TLD Bid: What a Human-First Domain Would—and Wouldn't—Change for Self-Hosted Apps

What the proposed .self TLD could change for self-hosted apps, what still requires portable DNS and TLS automation, and the policy questions a public-good registry must answer.

infrastructure
security
privacy
engineering
Ripple Takes RLUSD to Four L2s: How Wormhole NTT Avoids the Classic Wrapped-Token Model
·Dora Noda·10 min

Ripple Takes RLUSD to Four L2s: How Wormhole NTT Avoids the Classic Wrapped-Token Model

Ripple’s RLUSD now spans four Ethereum L2s through Wormhole NTT. See the transfer flow, the controls it preserves, and the risks it does not remove.

stablecoins
Ethereum
layer-2
blockchain
Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok Plugins Show Why Deploy-From-Chat Needs an Open Control Plane
·Dora Noda·11 min

Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok Plugins Show Why Deploy-From-Chat Needs an Open Control Plane

Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok plugins point to a host-neutral control-plane design for safely deploying and operating a PaaS from any chat client.

PaaS
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
security
Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor
·Dora Noda·10 min

Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor

Porter bills requested CPU and RAM inside your cloud account, but a BYOC cluster still has a fixed cost. A three-way example shows where granular requests help, where hosted tiers win, and how ownership changes the bill.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
cost-optimization
Platform Engineering 2.0 Has Five Good Ideas—and an Implementation Gap
·Dora Noda·10 min

Platform Engineering 2.0 Has Five Good Ideas—and an Implementation Gap

A practical readiness matrix for turning Platform Engineering 2.0’s AI, agent, FinOps, security, and composability pillars into operating designs a Kubernetes PaaS can verify.

AI
AI agents
Kubernetes
PaaS
+1
When Can an OP Stack Batcher Reach $0.001 in L1 DA per Transaction?
·Dora Noda·9 min

When Can an OP Stack Batcher Reach $0.001 in L1 DA per Transaction?

A worked model of OP Stack blob batching, the utilization threshold for $0.001 in L1 data-availability cost per transaction, and the limits behind that headline.

Ethereum
layer-2
scalability
infrastructure
Private x402 Payments: What Mind Network’s x402z Adds—and What It Doesn’t
·Dora Noda·11 min

Private x402 Payments: What Mind Network’s x402z Adds—and What It Doesn’t

Mind Network’s x402z adds FHE-backed confidential value handling to x402 agent payments. See what it can protect, what still leaks, and the controls a production deployment needs.

x402
AI agents
payments
privacy
+1
MCP’s Ecosystem Is Big Enough to Be an Attack Surface: Scope a Deploy-from-Chat Server
·Dora Noda·10 min

MCP’s Ecosystem Is Big Enough to Be an Attack Surface: Scope a Deploy-from-Chat Server

A practical permission, approval, and audit design for an MCP deploy server that keeps untrusted tool context from becoming a production action.

AI agents
Model Context Protocol
security
infrastructure
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