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Self-Hosting Actual Budget on Cloud Run: A Free YNAB Alternative
Jesse Mecham's book sold me on YNAB. The subscription didn't. So I self-hosted Actual Budget, the open-source alternative, on Google Cloud Run with a storage bucket for data and my own domain on Cloudflare. Real cost: a few rupees a month, at most. Here's the whole setup.
Sep 25, 2026
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Scaling Cloud IDE Provisioning by 5x: From 5K to 25K Workspaces in One Region
I took HackerRank's cloud IDE provisioning from 5,000 to 25,000 concurrent workspaces in one region, at about 1,000 assigns per minute. The VMs were the easy part. NFS and the database weren't.
Feb 21, 2026