Blog archive
Upgrade to Windows Server 2025, move to Azure, or rebuild on Azure Local? Licensing models, November 2026 list prices and a three-year cost comparison for a 10-VM workload.
Manu Shukla 
Broadcom's VMware licensing changes have public sector IT teams re-tendering. Five alternatives compared on licensing, sovereignty, procurement fit, support and vendor continuity.
Manu Shukla 
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display brings touch to the Mac. What macOS 27 handles for you, the 8 changes Apple asks of AppKit apps, cross-platform frameworks, Live Activities and key dates.
Manu Shukla 
How mobile app reverse engineering works: the eight-stage assessment workflow, static vs dynamic analysis, what can be recovered, obfuscation limits, legal context and a practical checklist.
Aman Mathur 
How to build a smart home app for locks, ACs and lights: backend vs local control, Matter 1.6, Thread and MQTT, HomeKit and iOS requirements, offline behaviour, security and regulations.
Aman Mathur 
A platform-agnostic guide to mobile application security: OWASP Mobile Top 10 risks, secure storage, API authorisation, reverse engineering, integrity checks, testing approaches and a checklist.
Aman Mathur 
Firebase vs Supabase in 2026: Firestore and Postgres compared on scalability, SLAs and backups, Security Rules vs RLS, CDN, pricing and migration, with three ways to use both together.
Aman Mathur 
Supabase Select 2026 explained: native local development without Docker, Declarative Schemas 2.0 with pg-delta, private-alpha Compute and an MCP server for your app, with real status and limits.
Aman Mathur 
Five agent frameworks compared on licence, durable execution, human-in-the-loop, MCP, OpenTelemetry and October 2026 hosting prices, with a TypeScript vs Python decision table.
Manu Shukla 
A buyer's comparison of AI agent guardrail tools in 2026: verified prices, licences, the 2025-26 acquisitions, a 10M-request cost model and where each control sits.
Manu Shukla 
E2B, Daytona, Modal, Vercel, Cloudflare, Northflank, Runloop and self-hosted Kubernetes compared on 2026 pricing, isolation, egress control and India regions.
Manu Shukla 
Palo Alto now owns Portkey, a poisoned LiteLLM 1.107.0 hit PyPI on 21 October and Kong split out AI Gateway 2.0. How four enterprise AI gateways compare on governance and cost.
Manu Shukla 
Modal, Baseten, Runpod and Replicate compared on verified October 2026 GPU prices, billing units, cold starts, compliance and India data residency, with a worked 70B cost model.
Manu Shukla 
Vapi vs Retell vs Bland vs LiveKit for production voice agents: verified October 2026 prices, concurrency, HIPAA costs, a 10,000 and 100,000-minute cost model and India's new TRAI rules.
Manu Shukla 
Browserbase, Steel, Kernel, Hyperbrowser and Browserless compared on October 2026 pricing, licences, regions and compliance, with a worked cost for 1,000 browser-hours a month.
Manu Shukla 
Two acquisitions, a LangSmith price rise and a Langfuse v4 cut-over reshaped LLM observability in 2026. Verified prices, licences and a 2M-trace cost model for five tools.
Manu Shukla 
Composio vs Arcade vs Pipedream, Nango, Merge and identity vendors for MCP authentication: verified October 2026 prices, the 2026-07-28 spec changes, a cost model and DPDP notes.
Manu Shukla 
How researchers at Calif and Wiz used AI to find the PHP2Shell flaws, how PHP's single-commit fix works, the verified timeline, and the benefits and risks of AI in security research.
Aman Mathur 
PHP2Shell explained: the two critical PHP flaws behind precautionary website shutdowns in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Czechia, with fixed versions and steps to take.
Aman Mathur 
A practical PHP2Shell fix guide: fixed PHP versions, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Alpine, cPanel and Docker packages, how to verify the patch is live, and what to look for in your logs.
Aman Mathur 
A verified October 2026 comparison of LlamaParse, Unstructured, Docling and Azure Document Intelligence for RAG: prices per 1,000 pages, licences, benchmarks, Indic OCR and DPDP options.
Manu Shukla 
Ragas, DeepEval, Braintrust and Giskard compared on October 2026 prices, licences, RAG metrics and CI gating, plus a worked judge-cost example for a 500-question eval set.
Manu Shukla 
Verified October 2026 prices, licences, regions and a 10M-vector cost model for Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus/Zilliz and pgvector, with India DPDP residency options.
Manu Shukla 
Apps built with Xcode 27 must adopt the UIKit scene life cycle or they fail to launch. How to read the crash log, migrate a Flutter app and retest before you resubmit.
Aman Mathur 