ShipDock Blog

Last updated: April 12, 2026

Thoughts on infrastructure, container orchestration, and the sovereign developer movement.

Engineering8 min read

Why we chose Traefik over Nginx for Canary Rollouts

An architectural deep-dive into how we manage dynamic routing and achieve true zero-downtime container swaps without dropping a single packet.

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Opinion5 min read

The State of Bring-Your-Own-Server in 2026

Why the PaaS model is fundamentally broken for scaling startups, and how the sovereign developer movement is reclaiming bare-metal compute.

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Engineering12 min read

How to parse 12+ Frameworks without Configuration

Under the hood of the ShipDock Builder Engine. How we use AST static analysis to dynamically generate production-grade Dockerfiles.

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