Engineering
OpenVPN Caught Up on Speed. Is That Enough to Switch Back?
OpenVPN with DCO now matches WireGuard on throughput. We read 88 engineers' comments to see if that changes anything, and found speed was never why they chose WireGuard.
Insights from the Cycle team.
Deep dives into infrastructure primitives, distributed systems, and updates from the team building Cycle.
Developer Experience Is Peace of Mind: Stability, Visibility and Predictability on Cycle
Product
A tour of Cycle's developer experience platform: environments, deployments, tag-based rollbacks, stacks and pipelines, and how they keep your platform stable, visible and predictable.
Graduating from Replit: How to Scale Without Rebuilding Your Ops Team
Use Cases
Outgrowing Replit? Here's what changes as your app scales, why DIY servers add DevOps work, and how Cycle lets you own your infrastructure without the complexity.
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PaaS Pricing Compared: Replit vs. Render vs. Railway vs. Owning Your Infrastructure
Use Cases
PaaS pricing compared: what Replit, Render, and Railway cost as you scale, versus owning your infrastructure on bare metal, with and without Cycle.
Let's Encrypt Is Shortening Certificate Lifetimes
Engineering
Let’s Encrypt certs drop to 45 days by 2028. What’s changing, why, and how Cycle automates TLS renewals without downtime.
One Platform, Three Borders: Multi-Tenancy Isolation on Cycle
Product
Multi-tenancy isolation on Cycle: choose shared, segregated, or dedicated tenancy for each customer using clusters and environments, all managed from one control plane.
eMudhra Intermediate CAs Compromised
Engineering
The private keys for eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates issued by eMudhra were recently compromised.
AI Changed How We Work. It Didn't Change What Your Platform Needs to Do.
Opinions
AI has changed how engineering and DevOps teams work, but the core needs of an internal developer platform haven’t. Declarative state, built-in observability, and having interfaces like an API or Portal still matter.
Moving Off Render: What to Look for When You're Ready to Own Your Infrastructure
Engineering
Outgrowing Render? Here's how to move to a platform where you own the servers, choose your regions, and keep a PaaS-like workflow, with an AI agent doing much of the setup.
CycleOS 2026.10.15.1: Linux Kernel 6.18 and NVIDIA 580 Drivers
Product
The latest CycleOS release brings Linux kernel 6.18 and NVIDIA 580 drivers, patching critical CVE-2026-99999 (PwnEscape) and adding CUDA 13 support and better virtualization.
Graduating from Railway: Moving to a Platform Where You Own the Infrastructure
Use Cases
Outgrowing Railway? Here's what it looks like to move to a platform where you own the infrastructure, pick your regions, and run hybrid or bare metal.
The Heroku Experience for the AI Era
Engineering
Heroku made deploying easy, but growing teams eventually outgrew it. AI coding agents are bringing that speed back, along with a new challenge: keeping track of what every engineer and every agent is shipping.
CVE-2026-74580: Possible VM Escape via the Vghost Vulnerability
Engineering
CVE-2026-74580 (Vghost) is a high-severity Linux vhost bug that can give attackers root on the host or let them escape a VM. Here’s the risk and how Cycle users patch.
Cycle MCP 2026.10.14.02: Server Configuration, Shared File Systems, and a Clearer View of Capacity
Engineering
The first update to the MCP server since launch is now live, and includes powerful capacity and infrastructure oriented tooling.
Managing Hybrid Infrastructure and Multicloud Without the Overhead
Product
Spreading infrastructure across multiple cloud providers can cuts costs and adds resilience, but it also multiplies the work. Cycle gives teams one control plane for multiple providers, no need for Kubernetes or a dedicated platform team.
AI Tooling Comes to Cycle - Announcing Cycle's Hosted MCP
Product
Today, we're launching a brand new way to interface with the Cycle Platform, that just a year or two ago would have felt entirely like science fiction. Our first ever AI-oriented tooling, Cycle's Hosted MCP, is live today.
Cycle achieves SOC 2 Type 1: Strengthening our commitment to data security and system availability
Product
Cycle recently went through a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 audit and we've got the report. It’s an important step in our continuous commitment to data security and system availability. But are we just checking boxes for the sake of boxes or is there more behind it?
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Our Newest Infrastructure Partner: Cherry Servers
Engineering
Cycle has integrated Cherry Servers, a European bare metal infrastructure provider, giving clients more deployment locations and lower costs than major hyperscalers. The partnership also offers a path to data sovereignty for teams looking to move away from U.S.-owned infrastructure.
Exploring Cron Function Containers
Product
Discover how the newly released Cron function containers empower developers to schedule jobs, batch work, processing, and more with a simple new configuration.
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