From 3 Days to 11 Minutes: What the Widely-Cited MCP Deploy Speedup Stat Actually Measures
The '3 days to 11 minutes' MCP integration stat traces to one unverified blog testimonial, not a benchmark. Here's what it actually measures, and what a fair before/after would require.
Northflank Has Four Kubernetes Modes. Only One Puts You in the Driver's Seat
Northflank markets four ways to run Kubernetes under its platform. Three of them mean Northflank's software still operates the control plane — only one hands that job to you. Here's the breakdown, with real numbers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ceph Tentacle's FastEC vs MinIO's Maintenance Mode: What Self-Hosting Block and Object Storage Looks Like on a Cluster-API Fleet in 2026
Ceph Tentacle's FastEC cuts erasure-coding overhead for small block I/O by 2-3x. Worked out on real Hetzner-class hardware against 3x-replicated Longhorn, plus the January 2026 production incident that shows exactly how not to enable it.
Docker Compose's models: Key Has Been in the Official Spec Since June 2025 — What That Means for a Compose-to-Cluster-API Build Step
Docker Compose's models: key for defining AI models, agents, and MCP tools has quietly been part of the vendor-neutral Compose Specification since June 2025 — here's the exact YAML, and what it means for a git-push PaaS's build pipeline.
Dokploy Passed CapRover's GitHub Stars in Two Years, Not Nine
CapRover took nearly nine years to reach 15,109 GitHub stars. Dokploy passed that number in about two. The GitHub API data, and the Docker Compose gap behind it, explain why.