Practical guides on Canadian infrastructure, managed hosting, migrations, and keeping your applications secure — from our Alberta team.
Apache Druid (apache/druid) — ~14k-star column-oriented DB for streaming and batch events: sub-second aggregates, Kafka ingest, DruidSQL, web console. Apache-2.0. Self-hosted clickstream and ops analytics.
Read articleEkko Studio (EKKOLearnAI/ekko-studio) — local-first chat, visual workflows, Claude Code/Codex integrations, channels, MCP. Desktop, npm, or Docker on port 8648. ~12k stars.
Read articleBlinko (blinkospace/blinko) — card-style Markdown notes with AI RAG search, Docker or Tauri, ~11k stars. Capture ideas fast; data stays on your self-hosted instance.
Read articlePeach (peach-mitao/peach) — single-user, local-first media system with Docker on VPS/NAS, metadata tooling, and private playback. ~12k stars, AGPL. 18+ personal collections only — not public streaming.
Read articleConcat (jub0t/Concat) — Rust GPU video editor, auto-captions, TTS, effects, 4K export. No watermark or cloud upload. JSON-RPC + MCP for scripts and AI agents. ~12k stars, cross-platform beta.
Read articleOwncast (owncast/owncast) — RTMP ingest from OBS, ffmpeg transcoding, built-in player and chat, MIT licensed. ~12k stars. Twitch-style streaming you own, on a Canadian VPS.
Read articlebore (ekzhang/bore) — minimal Rust CLI to expose localhost ports through a server you run. MIT, ~12k stars. Self-hosted ngrok-lite with optional shared secret, not a VPN.
Read articleWindmill (windmill-labs/windmill) — Rust orchestrator, Postgres queue, scripts in 20+ languages, auto UIs, flows, internal apps, Git sync. ~18k stars, AGPL. Self-hosted alternative to Retool plus heavy automation.
Read articleNetmaker (gravitl/netmaker) automates WireGuard — remote access gateways, mesh and site-to-site VPNs, private DNS, and ACLs from a control plane you host. ~12k stars. For teams who outgrew hand-edited wg0.conf.
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