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Devpush's No-Dockerfile Bet: What a Curl-Pipe Install Buys a Solo Python Dev, and Where It Runs Out
·Dora Noda·8 min

Devpush's No-Dockerfile Bet: What a Curl-Pipe Install Buys a Solo Python Dev, and Where It Runs Out

Devpush skips Dockerfiles entirely and installs with a curl-pipe-to-bash script on one box. A concrete look at what that buys a solo Python or Node developer's time-to-first-deploy, and the specific points — language support, background workers, a second machine — where the bet runs out.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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DX's 13-Minutes-Per-Point Number: What a 40,000-Developer Panel Actually Proves About Golden-Path ROI
·Dora Noda·9 min

DX's 13-Minutes-Per-Point Number: What a 40,000-Developer Panel Actually Proves About Golden-Path ROI

DX's headline claim is that each one-point DXI gain saves 13 minutes a developer a week — a number from a 40,000-developer survey panel, not a stopwatch. Here's what it actually proves, what it can't, and the instrumented time-to-first-deploy metric a self-hosted platform can measure instead.

PaaS
self-hosting
engineering
productivity
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Elestio's 400+ App Catalog Passes Coolify's: Why Catalog Size Is the Wrong Way to Rank a Self-Hosted PaaS
·Dora Noda·9 min

Elestio's 400+ App Catalog Passes Coolify's: Why Catalog Size Is the Wrong Way to Rank a Self-Hosted PaaS

Elestio now leads the self-hosted PaaS category with 400+ one-click apps, ahead of CapRover, Coolify, PikaPods, and Cloudron. The numbers are real — but they measure a different product than a git-push PaaS builds. Here's the actual table, what catalog size hides, and what a Cluster-API platform should borrow instead of chasing the count.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Fly.io's July 3 ORD Outage: Two Upstream Failures, 18 Hours Apart, and the Fault Domain You Don't Get to Choose
·Dora Noda·8 min

Fly.io's July 3 ORD Outage: Two Upstream Failures, 18 Hours Apart, and the Fault Domain You Don't Get to Choose

Fly.io's July 3, 2026 status history reads like one 18-hour ORD outage, but it was two separate upstream failures hours apart. Here's the verbatim timeline and what a rented-rack fault domain actually costs you versus owning the fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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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PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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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
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
IPVS Is Deprecated in Kubernetes 1.35: What Actually Changes When kube-proxy Moves to nftables
·Dora Noda·8 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.

self-hosting
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·9 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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