Deployment

Hands-on comparisons of deployment and hosting platforms for web applications, covering developer experience, pricing, and architecture.

10 articles

Every EU-Sovereign Alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft Office (2026)

A roundup of the European "sovereign" productivity suites trying to replace Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 — who builds them, what's inside, and whether you can actually use them yet.

ArticlesJune 17, 202614 min read

Is it feasible to self host an open source EU Sovereign productivity suite in 2026? [A Mijn Bureau Review]

I spent a few hours self-hosting Mijn Bureau, the Dutch government's open-source productivity suite, as an alternative to Google Workspace — here's what worked and what didn't.

ArticlesJune 15, 20269 min read

Cloud Computers for AI Agents: exe.dev vs Sprites vs Shellbox vs E2B vs Blaxel

We compared five tools built for running AI agents in the cloud across specs, startup time, security, pricing, and use cases.

ComparisonsApril 24, 202627 min read

AX: Vercel vs Railway vs Netlify

A four-stage agent experience audit of Vercel, Railway, and Netlify — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling.

ComparisonsApril 15, 202628 min read

Freestyle.sh for AI Agents: An AX Audit

A four-stage agent experience audit of Freestyle — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling, with a competitor comparison.

ArticlesApril 8, 202637 min read

Heroku Was Already Dead: A Study in Bad UX

Signing up for Heroku takes 9 screens and requires MFA enrollment, a 15-character password, and Salesforce Terms of Service. Railway takes one click. Here's a side-by-side comparison.

ArticlesFebruary 12, 20269 min read

Vercel vs Railway

Complete comparison of Vercel and Railway for deploying Express applications–architecture, pricing, developer experience, and migration.

ComparisonsJanuary 29, 202618 min read

Vercel vs Render

Complete comparison of Vercel and Render for deploying full-stack applications—architecture, pricing, developer experience, and migration.

ComparisonsJanuary 29, 202619 min read

Building real-time apps with Cloudflare Workers and RedwoodSDK

Compare building real-time polling applications with Cloudflare Workers and RedwoodSDK. See the differences in development experience, code patterns, and deployment.

ComparisonsJanuary 29, 202648 min read

Firebase vs Supabase vs Appwrite: We built the same app three times

Building a shopping list app on Firebase, Supabase, and Appwrite to compare setup experience, database models, security approaches, and developer tooling.

ComparisonsJanuary 29, 202621 min read