Notes from the field
Deployment write-ups, open-source news and lessons from running infrastructure.
An internal ChatGPT: giving staff AI without giving away your data
Open WebUI, your own models on GPU and Russian provider APIs — what to choose and why it is already urgent.
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Meetings without Zoom: BigBlueButton, the video calls nobody can switch off
Meetings, webinars and training on your own server, with recordings that never leave.
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After Telegram and WhatsApp: time for work chats to move to Zulip
The blocks proved it: work conversations must not depend on someone else's service.
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Company files in someone else's cloud: how that ends — and how Nextcloud fixes it
What's wrong with Google Drive for a company — and what a private cloud gives you.
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Code on GitHub — until you're cut off. The case for your own GitLab
Code is an asset. Keeping it on someone else's platform is an avoidable risk.
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A self-hosted AI chatbot on your own servers
A widget that answers from your knowledge base.
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Cloud bill growing faster than revenue? Build your own on OpenStack
When public-cloud bills grow faster than the business, it's time to build your own.
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An autopilot for your services: what Kubernetes actually does
How your site survives traffic spikes and 3 a.m. failures with nobody on call.
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The site went down and you heard about it last: how Zabbix changes that
Monitoring is the insurance policy that actually pays out.
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