Insights & Updates
Tutorials, deployment guides, product updates, and engineering deep-dives from the Miget team.
Keycloak on Docker Compose: Production Mode Without the Footguns
Most Keycloak Docker tutorials run start-dev, which Keycloak's own docs say to strictly avoid in production. A compose file that runs production mode properly, and the five settings that decide whether it is secure.
What Is a Staging Environment? And Why Most of Them Lie to You
A staging environment is a production replica where changes are tested before release. The definition is easy; keeping it honest is not. The four ways staging drifts from production, and what replaced it for most teams.
Streamlit Hosting in 2026: When Community Cloud Stops Being Enough
Streamlit Community Cloud is free and genuinely good, until the 12-hour sleep and the one-private-app limit meet a real audience. What the free tier actually allows, and how to host Streamlit yourself with the WebSocket and port details that trip people up.
Coolify vs Dokploy vs Managed: What Self-Hosting a PaaS Actually Costs
Coolify and Dokploy are free, but the server underneath them is not, and it got more expensive twice in 2026. A cost comparison with real prices from Hetzner and DigitalOcean, including where self-hosting genuinely wins.
Replit Alternatives in 2026: Split the IDE From the Hosting
Replit bundles a browser IDE, an AI agent and hosting into one subscription and one credit balance. Most people looking for an alternative only want to replace one of them - here is the honest split, with what Replit costs once your app has to stay online.
WordPress on Docker Compose: The Production Details Tutorials Skip
Most WordPress Docker Compose tutorials give you a stack that works until the first restart, the first HTTPS proxy, or the first plugin install. Here is a compose file that survives all three, with the four failure modes explained.
7 Best Railway Alternatives in 2026: What Happens When Always-On Meets Usage Billing
Railway bills per vCPU-second and GB-second, which is excellent for bursty work and expensive for anything that must stay warm. Seven alternatives compared by what your bill does when your app never sleeps.
What Is an MCP Server? The Plug That Connects AI to Everything Else
An MCP server is a small program that exposes tools, data, or actions to AI assistants over the Model Context Protocol - the open standard Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor all speak. What it does, how it works, local vs remote, and how to run one.
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.