REPO REVIEWS

Apache APISIX is a high-performance, Lua/Nginx-based API gateway with a genuinely impressive plugin ecosystem and active development. If you're evaluating Kong, Envoy, or rolling your own gateway, you should probably look at this first.

Apache APISIX is a high-performance, Lua/Nginx-based API gateway that's been quietly gaining serious traction in cloud-native stacks. I dug into the repo to give you an honest take on whether it's worth the operational investment.

Dokku is a self-hosted PaaS that gives you a Heroku-like git push deployment workflow on your own server. After 12 years of active development and 31k+ stars, it's one of the most battle-tested tools in the self-hosted DevOps space.

Netdata has been around since 2013 and now sits at 78k stars with daily commits and ML-powered anomaly detection baked in. I took a hard look at whether it actually delivers on its promises or whether you're better off sticking with the Prometheus/Grafana stack you already know.

Netdata has 78k stars and has been around since 2013, but the real question is whether it holds up against modern observability stacks. Here's an honest look at what you actually get when you deploy it.