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Why We Chose Woodpecker CI (And You Probably Should Too)
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Why We Chose Woodpecker CI (And You Probably Should Too)

While everyone argues about GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, we quietly run Woodpecker CI. Here is why it became our default for self-hosted pipelines.
14 Jul 2026 8 min read
Breaking Up with GitHub Actions: Our Love Story with Woodpecker CI
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Breaking Up with GitHub Actions: Our Love Story with Woodpecker CI

Tired of 15-minute builds, Red Sea cable latency, and GitHub's pricing games, we ditched GitHub Actions for a self-hosted Woodpecker CI setup. Four Beelink mini PCs, $1,300 total, ROI in 3 months. Here's how we did it and why sovereignty over your infrastructure still matters.
20 Jan 2026 15 min read
Using Open source software is the only way to have a sustainable business
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Using Open source software is the only way to have a sustainable business

Why open source is not free, and how to calculate the real cost of running HAProxy in-house against a commercial F5 load balancer over one year.
09 Aug 2021 7 min read
Keep calm and release your API in prod
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Keep calm and release your API in prod

Writing a REST API has become a standard in the industry for a few years already, just like the anguish of deploying it live, and watching Sentry spam your inbox of bug reports because you or your QA (which is you, with a hat) were not careful or imaginative enough.
07 Jun 2021 4 min read
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