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Follow along as we share technical deep dives into Rust, HTMX, and building high-performance commenting engines.

  1. Building a Multi-Tenant Observability Stack with GreptimeDB and Perses

    How we track custom domain traffic, API interactions, and tenant health using an open-source OpenTelemetry pipeline.

    Engineering
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  2. Zero-CVE: Building a Vulnerability-Free Rust Container

    How we engineered a mathematically proven, secure Docker pipeline for MarkReply using Chainguard Wolfi, Trivy, and OWASP ZAP.

    Security
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  3. Self-Hosting the MarkReply Core Engine

    Deploy your own blazing-fast, SQLite-backed comment engine in minutes using Docker Compose.

    Systems
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  4. Automating SSL for Millions of Domains with Caddy

    How our Rust control plane uses Caddy to instantly provision custom domain certificates for our managed tenants.

    Systems
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  5. Bring Your Own Stack: A Truly Framework Agnostic Widget

    Why we rejected NPM packages and React wrappers in favor of a universal HTML drop-in.

    Getting Started
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  6. The Anti-Bloat Stack: Rust, HTMX, SQLite, and Caddy

    Why we rejected microservices and SPAs to build a commenting engine that actually respects your server and your users.

    Systems
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  7. Escaping the Bloat: Why We Built MarkReply

    How we replaced 500KB of ad-tracking JavaScript with a 14KB HTMX and Rust commenting engine.

    Performance
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