A developer migrated a Next.js application from Vercel to a VPS to control costs and infrastructure. The key technique is using Next.js's standalone output mode to reduce Docker image size from 1 GB t…
A Go developer tested AI-assisted development by building a secure web utility hub, toolkitch.ru, using Node.js and Vanilla JS. The project processes sensitive data like JWT decoding and hashes entire…
Dokploy is a free, self-hosted PaaS that bundles Docker Swarm, Traefik, PostgreSQL, and Redis into a single web dashboard, allowing users to deploy apps, manage databases, and handle domains without m…
A developer built an MCP server that indexes microservice repositories, enables natural language and structured search, and automates batch changes like updating dependencies across multiple repos. Th…
A developer details their 2026 homelab stack, which runs across four machines including a Mac Mini, Ubuntu mini PC, Raspberry Pi 4, and Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo 8 AI HAT. The stack uses Traefik for r…
Label Studio, an open-source data labeling platform, has been deployed on Ubuntu 24.04 using Docker Compose with Traefik for automatic HTTPS and persistent volumes. The setup enables secure annotation…
A developer deployed Jina Serve, an open-source framework for neural search and multimodal AI, on Ubuntu 24.04 using Docker Compose and Traefik for automatic HTTPS. The setup includes a custom text ex…
The open-source project sandboxed provides a self-hosted platform that turns a single Linux machine into a fleet of isolated, on-demand development sandboxes with built-in AI coding agents and live pr…
A CTO of an FCA-authorised payment platform found that while AI agents efficiently handle 80% of code generation—scaffolding services, writing validation schemas, and refactoring imports—they consiste…
A developer deployed Open WebUI, a self-hosted ChatGPT-style interface for local and remote AI models, on Ubuntu 24.04 using Docker Compose with Traefik for automatic HTTPS. The setup provides a secur…
The article describes an engineer's journey of building five Kubernetes clusters, each iteration addressing a specific lesson learned from the previous one. The clusters evolved from a basic highly-av…
This article describes a Traefik reverse proxy setup that uses environment variables and Go template files to dynamically configure wildcard SSL certificates and multiple services. The configuration i…
After the retirement announcement of Ingress-NGINX, Stack Overflow was forced to replace the tool that had handled their Kubernetes traffic routing since their move to the platform. They evaluated sev…
This article provides a deployment guide for Fluxer, a self-hosted, open-source Discord alternative, detailing 20 common issues ("gotchas") encountered during setup. Key recommendations include keepin…