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Encore.dev Promises No Terraform — Until You Self-Host
·Dora Noda·8 min

Encore.dev Promises No Terraform — Until You Self-Host

Encore.dev's pitch is that declaring a database in your app code replaces writing Terraform. That's true — on Encore Cloud. Self-host the same app and you're back to provisioning infrastructure by hand and handing Encore a config file. A worked look at where the automation actually stops, and what it costs when it doesn't.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
cost-optimization
Preventing etcd Zombies on Upgrade to 3.6: A Cluster API Operator's Pre-Flight Checklist
·Dora Noda·8 min

Preventing etcd Zombies on Upgrade to 3.6: A Cluster API Operator's Pre-Flight Checklist

Kubeadm still pins etcd to v3.5.24-0 for Kubernetes 1.31 through 1.33 — one patch below the v3.5.26 floor etcd's maintainers say you need before v3.6. Here's why Cluster API's machine-replacement upgrade model skips that safety margin entirely, and the pre-flight checklist to run before you cross the boundary.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
engineering
Firebase Studio Is Shutting Down. Here's What 'Export My Code' Actually Means Across Every Vibe-Coding Platform
·Dora Noda·8 min

Firebase Studio Is Shutting Down. Here's What 'Export My Code' Actually Means Across Every Vibe-Coding Platform

Firebase Studio dies for good on March 22, 2027. Its own migration docs reveal exactly what exports cleanly and what doesn't — and the same checklist exposes how much of Bolt.new, Lovable, Replit, and Base44's output is actually yours to keep.

self-hosting
PaaS
migration
AI
+1
Fly.io's Managed Postgres Costs $38/Month Before You've Added the App
·Dora Noda·8 min

Fly.io's Managed Postgres Costs $38/Month Before You've Added the App

Fly.io's Managed Postgres starts at $38/month plus $0.28/GB storage — and that's before the app talking to it is billed. A line-by-line worked comparison against running Postgres on the same Hetzner box already hosting the app.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
GitHub Actions' Self-Hosted Runners Went Dark for Five Hours: The Outage That Proves 'Self-Hosted' Isn't 'Self-Owned'
·Dora Noda·8 min

GitHub Actions' Self-Hosted Runners Went Dark for Five Hours: The Outage That Proves 'Self-Hosted' Isn't 'Self-Owned'

A TLS certificate expired on a GitHub endpoint on July 19, 2026, and every self-hosted GitHub Actions runner on the internet went idle for five hours — even though the machines themselves never stopped running. Here's what actually broke, and why owning the compute was never the same as owning the pipeline.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
developer tools
GitHub Agent HQ Runs Claude, Codex, and Copilot on the Same Repo — Here's the Trust Boundary Your MCP Server Actually Needs
·Dora Noda·7 min

GitHub Agent HQ Runs Claude, Codex, and Copilot on the Same Repo — Here's the Trust Boundary Your MCP Server Actually Needs

GitHub Agent HQ runs Claude, Codex, and Copilot side by side on the same repo under one identity model — here's why a deploy platform's MCP server should authenticate the calling app, not the AI vendor behind it.

PaaS
self-hosting
AI
security
+1
GKE Labs' OpenRL Runs Fine-Tuning as a Kubernetes Workload: What Owning the Loop Actually Saves Over a Managed API
·Dora Noda·8 min

GKE Labs' OpenRL Runs Fine-Tuning as a Kubernetes Workload: What Owning the Loop Actually Saves Over a Managed API

Google's GKE Labs open-sourced OpenRL, a self-hosted, Tinker-compatible fine-tuning API for Kubernetes. Here's the worked cost math on what running your own LoRA fine-tuning loop actually saves over Together AI's managed API — and what it doesn't.

AI
LLM
self-hosting
PaaS
+1
GPU Inference's Hidden Egress Tax: The 22-31% Line Item Nobody Prices In
·Dora Noda·8 min

GPU Inference's Hidden Egress Tax: The 22-31% Line Item Nobody Prices In

2026 cost teardowns keep finding the same thing: GPU-hours are barely half an inference bill once a service actually serves traffic at volume. Here's the worked math on AWS, Azure, and GCP showing where the other 22-31% goes — and an honest look at what self-hosting the serving layer removes versus what it doesn't.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
+1
Grafana Fleet Management Now Pushes Config to Any OTel Collector — But Still Can't Run Air-Gapped
·Dora Noda·8 min

Grafana Fleet Management Now Pushes Config to Any OTel Collector — But Still Can't Run Air-Gapped

Grafana Fleet Management went GA for vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry Collectors on July 8, 2026 — one control plane, one matcher-scoped push, instead of a per-node config edit. The catch: it still requires a live Grafana Cloud backend, and a 20-star open-source project is the only fully self-hosted alternative.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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