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The MCP Stateless Transition Has Barely Started: An Ops Guide to the Mixed-Version Window
·Dora Noda·8 min

The MCP Stateless Transition Has Barely Started: An Ops Guide to the Mixed-Version Window

Only 4% of live MCP endpoints speak the stateless 2026-07-28 wire. This ops guide gives you a routing table for the mixed-version window, a handle-passing migration pattern for deploy and rollback tools, and the case for shipping stateless-first.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
self-hosting
guide
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Mimir vs Cortex vs Thanos: Picking the Multi-Tenant Metrics Backend for a PaaS That Bills by Usage
·Dora Noda·11 min

Mimir vs Cortex vs Thanos: Picking the Multi-Tenant Metrics Backend for a PaaS That Bills by Usage

Mimir, Cortex, and Thanos compared as the multi-tenant metrics backend for a self-hosted PaaS that bills by usage — per-tenant cardinality isolation, cost attribution for chargeback, and owned-capacity footprint, with a decision table.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
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Unlimited Apps, One Flat Bill: What PocketBaseCloud's $25 Show HN Pitch Reveals About Per-Project Pricing
·Dora Noda·10 min

Unlimited Apps, One Flat Bill: What PocketBaseCloud's $25 Show HN Pitch Reveals About Per-Project Pricing

PocketBaseCloud's Show HN offers unlimited small apps on a $25 flat slice — we work the N-app math against Supabase per-project metering, Vercel usage billing, and a $6 self-hosted box.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
hosting
Stop Copying Registry Passwords Into Every Namespace: Kubernetes 1.34 ServiceAccount Image Pulls in Practice
·Dora Noda·12 min

Stop Copying Registry Passwords Into Every Namespace: Kubernetes 1.34 ServiceAccount Image Pulls in Practice

Kubernetes 1.34's beta ServiceAccount token flow replaces per-namespace imagePullSecrets with short-lived, workload-bound pull credentials — how to wire the registry side, bind ServiceAccounts, handle rotation, and test the failure modes before deleting static secrets.

Kubernetes
security
self-hosting
PaaS
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Sonobuoy Conformance as a Fleet Gate: Don't Schedule Tenants on an Unproven Node
·Dora Noda·9 min

Sonobuoy Conformance as a Fleet Gate: Don't Schedule Tenants on an Unproven Node

A two-tier Sonobuoy gate for CAPH-managed Hetzner fleets: taint every new machine at join, prove it with a focused non-disruptive conformance slice, and reserve full certified-conformance for template promotion on a canary cluster.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
tutorial
0.27s at 37%: What the August Sandbox Burst Benchmark Really Says About Cold-Start Claims
·Dora Noda·12 min

0.27s at 37%: What the August Sandbox Burst Benchmark Really Says About Cold-Start Claims

Daytona's 0.27-second median at 37% success, Modal at 0.88s, E2B at 1.61s: a guided reading of the August burst benchmark, a four-question decoder for any cold-start slide, and the concurrent bar a self-hosted Firecracker pool must clear to claim parity.

AI agents
self-hosting
cloud infrastructure
developer tools
Tailscale's Aperture Puts LLM API Keys Behind Network Identity Instead of Env Vars
·Dora Noda·10 min

Tailscale's Aperture Puts LLM API Keys Behind Network Identity Instead of Env Vars

Tailscale's Aperture replaces per-agent LLM API keys with tailnet identity, per-user audit logs, and token-spend attribution. Here's the five-step mechanism, why a mesh vendor built a credential broker, and the parts list for a self-hosted equivalent.

AI agents
LLM
identity
self-hosting
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Coolify v4 Is a Rolling Beta: What Pinning the Platform Underneath Your Apps Actually Requires
·Dora Noda·8 min

Coolify v4 Is a Rolling Beta: What Pinning the Platform Underneath Your Apps Actually Requires

Coolify v4.3.1 was 'latest patched' on August 12 and four releases behind by August 16 — inside a CVE cluster with RCE to host root. How to run a rolling-beta PaaS panel safely: version-pinned installs, a staging canary box, and advisory-feed monitoring.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
guide
ARC 0.14.0: Ephemeral Tenant CI on Your Own Fleet, Without the Scale-Set Sprawl
·Dora Noda·12 min

ARC 0.14.0: Ephemeral Tenant CI on Your Own Fleet, Without the Scale-Set Sprawl

ARC 0.14.0 adds multilabel runner scale sets, stale-config protection, and a standalone Go client — a walkthrough of running ephemeral per-job tenant CI on a Cluster-API fleet, from Helm install to listener scheduling.

self-hosting
Kubernetes
developer tools
infrastructure
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