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Notes from building the sovereign deployment platform.
- May 3, 2026
Building two free tools made me realize what I actually wanted Wooven to be
After open-sourcing a cost calculator and a vendor lock-in auditor in the same fortnight, the through-line stopped being a marketing message and started being a product thesis.
Read more → - May 2, 2026
Four deployment pain patterns that keep showing up in public
No proprietary survey—just recurring themes from public migration threads, billing debates, and conversations with engineers when the topic comes up.
Read more → - April 29, 2026
Why EU teams scrutinize US cloud providers beyond GDPR paperwork
Control, margin, and legal uncertainty around transatlantic transfers—not just checklists—show up in how teams talk about infrastructure choices.
Read more → - April 26, 2026
The hidden cost of serverless: what public billing stories actually show
Usage-based pricing isn't wrong—but surprise spikes are a documented failure mode. Here's what verifiable public sources say, plus what vendors changed after the backlash.
Read more → - April 25, 2026
Why I chose Elysia over Express for Wooven's API
Express is still the default mental model for Node APIs. Here's an honest trade-off log: type safety and Bun versus ecosystem depth—no invented benchmarks.
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