Jonas Scholz articles - 130 total
Move Over LLaMA: Tencent's New Open LLM is Ready to Self-Host
Tencent just released a new open-source model called Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct. It has open weights (not...
Cloudflare just released Containers: here's everything you need to know
Cloudflare Containers let you run any Docker image on Cloudflare's 300-plus edge locations. You...
5 AI Tools I Use Every Day as a Startup Founder
You’ve heard the hype: AI will replace developers, automate your job, and take over your...
5 Cheap Ways to Deploy Docker Containers (2025 Edition)
Hetzner, Sliplane, Render, GitHub, and DigitalOcean: choosing a cloud provider for your next side...
What Cloud Provider Should You Use for Self-Hosted n8n?
n8n is one of the hottest automation tools available right now. It's open source, powerful, and AI...
Kubernetes Isn't for You
A lot of startups reach a point where they look at their perfectly working deployment setup and...
What's New at Sliplane: Faster Builds, SSH Access, APIs, Dedicated Power
At Sliplane, we're building the simplest way to run your Dockerized apps in production. No...
Fly Away from Fly.io
At Sliplane, we run managed Docker hosting. One of our core infrastructure needs is to run isolated,...
This Open Source Tool Saves Me Thousands of Dollars
I used to pay 30 dollars per month (per user!) for ChatGPT. Then I realized I could self-host the UI...
Cloud Computing In 2025 Is Broken
Cloud platforms were built for a world where software was big and slow. You had a frontend, a...
Self-hosting Kimai on an Ubuntu Server
Tired of using SaaS for time tracking or handing your work data over to third parties? Kimai is a...
Start Thinking Like a Chef
Most indie devs and early startups make the same mistake. They look at their VC-funded competitors...
99.99% of Developers Don’t Need SLAs
SLAs are not uptime guarantees. They are discount coupons. A lot of developers hear "SLA" and think...
5 Things That Should Be Illegal to Self Host
I love self hosting. I run a Docker hosting platform that empowers everybody to self-host. I think...
How to ungoogle your Business: Google Drive Edition
Google Drive is convenient. But it comes with tradeoffs and they get worse the bigger your team...
The One Trait All Truly Great Engineers Share
Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” I’ve worked...
Cursor is now free for Students
Cursor is now free for students! If you're a student and haven’t tried Cursor yet, now’s the time....
The Deglobalization and Fragmentation of the Cloud
The cloud used to be messy, and then it got boring. In the early days, the hosting market was...
5 Projects That Will Actually Make You Better at Docker
As a Docker Captain and Co-Founder of a Docker hosting company, I've seen a lot of people struggle...
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Startup as a Software Engineer
There is a lot of startup advice out there, mostly from founders who already made it and forgot what...
Stop Using AWS.
How many times have you seen someone build an MVP with all the cloud bells and whistles, only to...
Redis Lost. Or did they?!
Not long ago, Redis was tired of being eaten alive by the hyperscalers. Amazon, Microsoft, and...
You Should Break Prod
Recently, I’ve seen people push back on something I strongly believe in: You only truly...
Every Developer Needs to Self-Host
I used to think self hosting was something only sysadmins or homelab nerds did. You know, the kind of...
How I save $$$ by self-hosting these 5 open source tools
SaaS pricing is getting ridiculous. What starts as a few useful tools can easily snowball into...
Stop Using Docker like its 2015
Docker has grown up. Have you? Back in 2015, Docker was shiny and new. You probably ran your first...
Serverless is a Scam.
Every time someone reaches for serverless to build a simple backend, a container dies inside...
5 Awesome Koyeb Alternatives
While Koyeb offers a powerful platform for hosting containerized applications, you might find...
Building a self-updating n8n instance with n8n workflows
Self-hosting n8n is absolutely fantastic. You have full control over your data, your workflows, and...
How I use n8n and AI agents to scale my startup
Running a lean and bootstrapped startup comes with many day-to-day operations you don't really want...