Engineering
9 articles in this category.
Self-Hosting a Password Manager: What You Are Actually Taking On
Self-hosting a password manager changes less about security than people assume, and more about backups than they expect. The options, the licence detail nobody mentions, and the failure mode that should decide it for you.
Mintlify Alternatives: What You Are Actually Choosing Between
Every Mintlify alternatives list is written by someone selling a docs product. We pay for Mintlify and wrote the exporter, so here is the comparison without a horse in the race - including the one dimension nobody checks.
How to Self-Host Mintlify Docs as a Static Site
Mintlify offers self-hosting on Enterprise. Everyone else can export the rendered docs to a static bundle and host them anywhere - here is the open-source tool we built for it, and the honest list of what it does not cover.
Deploy Rails With Kamal to a Managed Cluster
A step-by-step Kamal deploy of a stock Rails app to Miget. You keep the deploy.yml and the kamal deploy workflow; the server you SSH into is a managed cluster, not a VPS you patch.
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.
Kamal Deploy: VPS vs PaaS - Notes From Our KRUG and SRUG Talk
The same deploy.yml runs on a raw VPS and on Miget. A recap of our CEO's KRUG and SRUG talk on Kamal, the ops you inherit on a VPS, and how Miget makes Kamal think it is talking to Docker when it is really Kubernetes.