Why I Stopped Self-Hosting Services: A Strategic Shift
Years of self-hosting taught me what isn't worth maintaining anymore.
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Years of self-hosting taught me what isn't worth maintaining anymore.
For more than 35 years, Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated on a wide range of enterprise technology offerings. From support for Azure hybrid cloud to server-based Windows solutions, Dell has a lengthy history of supplying co-developed and integrated products and services wi
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
Verizon and BT Group have announced plans to combine their international enterprise fixed-line operations into a new joint venture. The move is expected to close in 2027, subject to regulatory approval. BT and Verizon say the new company will be "designed for a cloud-first world in the age of AI", w
Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.
Modern cloud deployments involve many tools with different lifecycles, creating a heavy burden on engineers. The Kubernetes ecosystem offers a unified Control Plane approach. Sharing best practices through tech talks and inner-source collaboration can create an engaged community and drive adoption.
Cross-posted from my blog. Canonical version: https://launchsoloai.com/insights/runcap-vs-langfuse-vs-litellm-ai-cost-control You let a coding agent loose on a task. It loops. It re-reads the same files, re-summarizes the same context, retries the same failing call. Forty minutes later you check the
SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However, the same data reveals fewer than two in five c
It's important to monitor Dataform - jobs executed by Dataform can be the primary source of BigQuery costs in a modern data platform. Forgetting to incrementalise a table, using a table instead of a view in the wrong place or performing complex window functions on a large table can all incur large c
I have been building AuthSafe, a developer auth platform, for three years. Auth infrastructure is unforgiving about correctness. A stale session state, a dropped rate limit counter, a coordination write that silently vanished, these are not edge cases you can wave away. They are production bugs with
Spoiler: the machine was fine. My assumptions were not. You will try to SSH into your ZimaCube Pro. It will refuse. Not because of permissions, not because of a firewall. Because SSH is simply off. ssh zimacube-pro ssh: connect to host zimacube-pro port 22: Connection refused Go to your ZimaOS web U
The bar has never been lower to begin self-hosting
Last week, for the nth time, I had to bulk-import records using Excel. No matter how advanced and complex your business rules and code, they often circle back to reading and writing Excel files. I should call it The Excel paradox of coding. Instead of writing enterprise software, maybe we should bui
For developers who spend 2+ hours daily coding with AI and need sessions that don't start from scratch every time. You've probably set up project-level context for your AI — rules files, system prompts, documentation. And they work for teaching the AI your conventions. But there are three problems t
A friend of mine has two apps on the Play Store. The first is Motion Cues — an app that prevents motion sickness by syncing visual cues with your inner ear. Over 30,000 downloads. The second is Let it Rain — a rain overlay app for relaxation and focus. Climbing toward 10,000. Each took about a month
Between episodes, here's something lighter. Still useful. Still PostgreSQL. You've used PostgreSQL for years. SELECT, INSERT, JOIN, INDEX. Maybe you've partitioned a table or two. But PostgreSQL has been quietly shipping features that most engineers never discover until they're deep in a Stack Overf
Production incidents almost never break in one place. The alert fires in one tool. The broken deploy is in Netlify. The suspicious A normal chatbot can sound helpful in that situation. It can say things like But that is not triage. That is a polished to-do list. I wanted something more useful: an ag
Most of us learned databases with auto-increment IDs. id INT AUTO_INCREMENT is in every tutorial. It works — until it doesn't. Auto-increment integers are fast, small (4 bytes), and naturally ordered. For a single-database app with one writer, they're perfect. But real systems rarely stay that simpl
HashiCorp Consul is a service networking platform that enables organizations to discover, connect, and secure services across the network in dynamic infrastructure environments. At its core, Consul provides service discovery, allowing services to be registered and discovered based on a service ident
Traditional IAM was designed for deterministic users and workflows. Agentic AI introduces autonomous, non-deterministic actors that require a fundamentally different authorization model, one that combines identity, delegation, runtime policy evaluation, and ephemeral authorization. AI agents require