2026-09-22
Cloud automation services — Zapier, Make, Albato — and their comparison with n8n are covered in the third part of the series. This article is about something else: which platforms you can deploy on your own server …
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Chats, notifications, market quotes, collaborative editing, and neural network responses that appear as words — all of this requires the server to push data to the client immediately, without repeated requests. HTTP is …
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Caddy, Traefik, HAProxy, Nginx and Apache solve overlapping problems — they accept HTTP requests, terminate TLS and forward traffic to applications — but they are built differently and are good in different places. Below …
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Traefik (pronounced “traffic”) is a reverse proxy and load balancer that takes routes not from a static file but from the environment: from Docker, Kubernetes, files, or service discovery systems. Start a …
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What is Caddy Caddy is a web server and reverse proxy that automatically obtains and renews TLS certificates for your domains. Just specify the site name in the configuration, and Caddy will expose it over HTTPS: no …
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Loki — a log storage system from Grafana Labs. Its main difference from ELK, OpenSearch and Graylog is that Loki does not build a full-text index. Only labels are indexed — a short set of key–value pairs describing the …
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Graylog — a platform for centralized log management. Unlike ELK, which is assembled from separate components, Graylog is originally built as a single system: intake, processing, routing, storage, search, alerts and …
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OpenSearch — an open data search and analytics system most often used for centralized log storage. It is a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana: in 2021, after Elastic changed the license to SSPL and the Elastic License, …
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ELK Stack — the best-known software stack for centralized logging. The name is formed from the initials of three components from Elastic: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together they collect logs, parse them into …
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Metrics show something is wrong with the system: response time has increased, memory is exhausted, the share of successful requests has dropped. To understand why this happened, you need logs — records of events written …
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