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April 4, 2026
Adopting cloud use: ploi.cloud
When we talk about adopting the use of cloud services as someone who used to run their own systems then at least we're going to look a bit more careful at things like where the infrastructure is...
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Cloud hosting: databases
The classical way for running a database has always been very simple: you run your webserver and it hosts something like a LAMP stack, with the “M” being MySQL - you can substitute this with...
ReadNovember 23, 2025
Cloud hosting: transactional emails
For me the first "obvious" point where I moved away from self hosting too much was email, specifically delivering transactional emails. In the traditional world of running things myself I'd have a...
ReadNovember 9, 2025
Forms of debt: technical, strategic (and more?)
Discovered this article via freek.dev: https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-10-31-architectural-debt-is-not-just-technical-debt/ I find a lot of what he describes about the different forms of...
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