Comparing self-hosted AI to cloud APIs for South African businesses. Real cost analysis with 2026 pricing, infrastructure requirements, POPIA compliance, and when each approach makes sense.
Tag: Backend
From Rebuilding Authentication in Every App to a Shared Identity Layer
Stop rebuilding authentication in every app. Learn how to build a shared identity layer that handles OAuth, federation, and user management once — so every application in your ecosystem can inherit it. Covers email normalization, token boundaries, and the critical difference between authentication and authorization.
Bringing GPU Support to NeuTTS-Air — A Dev Diary
Bringing GPU Support to NeuTTS-Air — A Dev Diary This is the long one: the full post‑mortem, the war stories, the trade‑offs, the CLI commands, and the benchmarks. Read this if you want to know what actually happened when we added ONNX GPU support and a benchmarking suite to NeuTTS‑Air. TL;DR We added auto device […]
ForkMyFolio Backend: Designing a Modern, Multi-User Portfolio Platform in Spring Boot
This long-form deep dive unpacks how ForkMyFolio’s backend turns a simple personal portfolio into a multi-user, slug-driven, production-ready platform built on Java 21 and Spring Boot 3. Updated: December 4, 2025 Tech Stack: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Spring Security, JPA, Docker What You’ll Learn Layered Spring Boot Architecture How controllers, services, repositories, DTOs, and mappers fit […]