Vercel is one of the most popular hosting for a good reason. As makers of Next.js, they provide a super smooth developer experience. However, they aren't always cost effective. Let's see what are some of the alternatives today.
Here's how to save costs and avoid DockerHub with a completely local Docker registry.
Oh My Zsh is a nice productivity addition to the Z shell for your Mac. If you are using Kamal, you can now use a Kamal plugin to make your deployments more fun.
People working on SaaS applications that serve content using customer domain names need a way to issue TLS certificates for the domains their customers provide. This means either updating the list of accepted domains or using a wildcard to issue them. Let's see how this could be solved using a Caddy reverse proxy.
One of the nice features of Digital Ocean is the ability to in-place upgrade their virtual machines.
Do you want to deploy an auxiliary service that comes with a dashboard? Then you might want to proxy it with Kamal Proxy.
Sometimes background jobs take a while to complete but you need to deploy new versions in the meantime, what now?
Kamal finally came with one its most awaited feature called maintenance mode. The new maintenance mode let's us open a downtime maintenance window for our apps to do any necessary updates and migrations.
Kamal now allows a bit more flexibility in the way the Proxy is being run.
