Insights & Updates
Tutorials, deployment guides, product updates, and engineering deep-dives from the Miget team.
Replit Alternatives in 2026: Split the IDE From the Hosting
Replit bundles a browser IDE, an AI agent and hosting into one subscription and one credit balance. Most people looking for an alternative only want to replace one of them - here is the honest split, with what Replit costs once your app has to stay online.
WordPress on Docker Compose: The Production Details Tutorials Skip
Most WordPress Docker Compose tutorials give you a stack that works until the first restart, the first HTTPS proxy, or the first plugin install. Here is a compose file that survives all three, with the four failure modes explained.
7 Best Railway Alternatives in 2026: What Happens When Always-On Meets Usage Billing
Railway bills per vCPU-second and GB-second, which is excellent for bursty work and expensive for anything that must stay warm. Seven alternatives compared by what your bill does when your app never sleeps.
What Is an MCP Server? The Plug That Connects AI to Everything Else
An MCP server is a small program that exposes tools, data, or actions to AI assistants over the Model Context Protocol - the open standard Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor all speak. What it does, how it works, local vs remote, and how to run one.
A Cloud for Small Software: What It Actually Takes to Build One
YC's Fall 2026 RFS asks for 'a cloud for small software' - purpose-built tools with one or a handful of users, easy to build with agents, still hard to deploy and share. Three years into building exactly this, here is what the category requires and an honest scorecard of which parts are solved.
Cloud Hypervisor vs Firecracker: Same DNA, Opposite Goals
Two Rust MicroVM monitors built on shared rust-vmm code, diverging on purpose: Firecracker for the serverless fleet, Cloud Hypervisor for workloads that stay. Feature by feature, with versions and the operational caveats both projects document.
gVisor vs Kata Containers: Two Ways to Stop Sharing a Kernel
A container shares the host kernel with everything else on the machine. gVisor and Kata Containers both remove that, in opposite ways - one reimplements the kernel in user space, the other gives every workload a real one. How each works and the gaps each project documents.
What Is a MicroVM? The Isolation Model Behind Modern Serverless
A MicroVM is a virtual machine stripped down to what a modern workload actually needs: no legacy device emulation, a minimal monitor, boot times in the hundreds of milliseconds. Why Lambda, Fly.io and container-isolation platforms are built on them, and what the model costs.
How to Self-Host Buzz: Block's Workspace Where Agents Have Their Own Keys
Block open-sourced Buzz, a workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms, built on Nostr so every participant carries a cryptographic identity. What it is under the hood, how to run your own relay, and the one security default you must change on day two.