Open Source

Guides, tools, and insights on open source software, including contributions, licensing, and best practices for collaborative development.

Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify
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Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify

Drupal Commerce is the wrong platform for most shops and the right one for a narrow, lucrative few. Here is exactly where that line falls.

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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move
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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12 arrives the same week Drupal 10 stops getting security fixes, so here is what changes, what the move costs and when to do it.

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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates
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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

How to commission and build a custom WordPress plugin that keeps working through core updates, what to ask for, and what it should cost.

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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core
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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core

What WordPress 7.0 actually shipped, why real time collaboration was cut, and how the AI Client changes what a plugin is allowed to assume.

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Drupal AI: What the AI Modules Actually Do
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Drupal AI: What the AI Modules Actually Do

What the Drupal AI modules actually do, what the token bill looks like, where they fail, and what a business still has to build by hand.

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Drupal Hosting: What Actually Runs Drupal Well
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Drupal Hosting: What Actually Runs Drupal Well

What Drupal really needs from a host: the PHP and database floors, the caching layers, honest cost bands per tier, and what actually drives sizing.

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Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs
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Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs

Moving off OpenAI to an open-weight model: what actually transfers, what quietly breaks, how to run a fair comparison, and when the saving is real.

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Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Hardware, Cost and Sovereignty
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Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Hardware, Cost and Sovereignty

Self-hosting Kimi K3 means about 1.4 TB of weights and far more VRAM than a single GPU node. Here is the real hardware, cost and data sovereignty maths.

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Kimi K3 API: Pricing, Integration and Trade-Offs
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Kimi K3 API: Pricing, Integration and Trade-Offs

The Kimi K3 API in production: real pricing maths, what the million-token context and reasoning effort settings cost, and when it beats a frontier model.

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Software Licensing Models: An Enterprise Guide 2026
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Software Licensing Models: An Enterprise Guide 2026

Unsure how to protect your custom code? Read our guide on software licensing models, proprietary vs open source ROI, and SaaS contracts.

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