Better Auth Review: The Self-Hosted, Framework-Agnostic Auth Library for 2026

A hands-on review of Better Auth, the TypeScript-first, self-hosted auth library you run against your own database — covering OAuth, 2FA, organizations, plugins, adapters, and when paying for Clerk is still the smarter call.

https://pickuma.com/for-dev/better-auth-review-self-hosted-auth-library/?utm_source=mastodon-mastodon.social&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog

#DevOps #Cloudflare

Hetzner Cloud Review: Why Developers Are Leaving AWS for European Bare Metal

A hands-on review of Hetzner Cloud and its bare-metal servers — the price-to-performance math against AWS EC2, the dedicated vCPU lines, the server auction, and the self-hosting stack (Coolify, Dokku) that makes it work. Honest about…

https://pickuma.com/for-dev/hetzner-cloud-review-aws-alternative-2026/?utm_source=mastodon-mastodon.social&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog

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Render Review: The Heroku Successor That Won the Indie Backend in 2026

I moved three side projects and one production API to Render over two months. Here's the honest take on git-push deploys, managed Postgres, cold starts, and where Render beats Fly.io and Railway — plus the egress and storage costs nobody mention…

https://pickuma.com/for-dev/render-review-heroku-successor-2026/?utm_source=mastodon-mastodon.social&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog

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Pulumi vs Terraform vs OpenTofu: Infrastructure as Code in 2026

I ran Pulumi, Terraform, and OpenTofu against the same AWS and Cloudflare stacks for several weeks. Here is how the language model, state handling, provider coverage, and the BSL-versus-open-source split actually shape which one your team should pick…

https://pickuma.com/for-dev/pulumi-vs-terraform-vs-opentofu-2026/?utm_source=mastodon-mastodon.social&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog

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Tigris vs Cloudflare R2 vs Backblaze B2: Object Storage for Edge Apps in 2026

I moved three real workloads across Tigris, Cloudflare R2, and Backblaze B2 to figure out which S3-compatible store actually fits edge apps — egress, latency, and integration compared.

https://pickuma.com/for-dev/tigris-vs-r2-vs-backblaze-b2-object-storage/?utm_source=mastodon-mastodon.social&utm_medium=crosspost&utm_campaign=blog

#DevOps #Cloudflare

Firewalls are bouncers with a guest list 🚪🕶️

They check who is coming, where they want to go, which door they use, and whether the rules allow it.

The new Networking for Humans post explains firewalls without the headache.

#Networking #Firewall #CyberSecurity #ELI5 #DevOps

https://webdad.eu/2026/06/04/%f0%9f%94%a5-firewalls-are-bouncers-with-a-guest-list/

A CI/CD pipeline isn't config. It's business logic - how you test, scan, promote, deploy - locked in one platform's dialect. Switch platforms, rewrite it all.

Brik makes it a portable Bash program: one pipeline, same on GitLab, Jenkins, and local.

https://scalastic.io/en/brik-cicd-portable-bash/

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#CICD #devops #Bash #gitlab #Jenkins #local