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Dockge — a lightweight web interface for managing Docker Compose stacks. It does not store configuration in its own database: each stack is just a regular folder with a compose.yaml file on disk, and Dockge lets you …
Kamal — a command-line tool from 37signals (creators of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails) for deploying web applications in Docker containers on your own servers. It sits between platforms like Heroku or Vercel, where …
TrueNAS — a free operating system for network-attached storage (NAS). It is installed on a regular PC or server with multiple disks, and it starts serving files over the network, making snapshots and backups, running …
The requirement to store personal data of citizens of Russia in Russian databases has been in force since 2015, but many companies operated for years using schemes that bypassed it: a form on the site sent the request …
Migrating a database to a cloud provider rarely boils down to dumping and loading. If the database is large and downtime must be measured in minutes, you need a service that first copies the data, then catches up the …
Server metrics and logs don’t show everything. If an error occurred in the user’s browser or in a rare code path, the server may not log anything and the user may simply close the page. For such cases there …
Lab and field data Lighthouse and WebPageTest measure site speed in controlled conditions: one device, one network, one run. This is convenient during development, but real visitors open the site from slow phones, over …
n8n workflows using language models carry two types of risks. On the input side, a user can send personal data, an API key, or an attempt to “jailbreak” the model’s instructions. On the output side the …
CI/CD is the practice where every code change is automatically built, tested and delivered to the server. Instead of the manual sequence “copy files, restart the service and check that nothing broke”, this …
Immich — is an application for storing and viewing photos and videos on your own server. In capabilities it is close to Google Photos: the mobile app uploads photos from the phone automatically, and the web interface has …