Welcome

Hey, I'm Arcanite. I work in software, and right now I'm building Suga, a container deployment platform. Outside of that I 3D print and take wildlife photos.

This blog is where I write down what I'm currently working on.

• deployment5
• suga4
• ai-agents3
• comparison2
• mcp2
• photography2
• wildlife2
• claude1
• docker-compose1
• heroku1
• paas1
• persistent-state1

• Best hosting for AI agents that need persistent state

  Aug 21, 2026sugaai-agentspersistent-statedeploymentcomparison

  How Fly.io, Railway, and Suga handle persistent state for AI agent workloads. Volumes, sibling databases, private networking, and which one fits which workload.

• Molting screech owl

  Aug 17, 2026photographywildlife

  Screech owls molt in stages, I learnt when I mistook it for an owlette.

  
• How to host a long-running AI agent

  Aug 15, 2026sugaai-agentsdeployment

  What actually breaks when you put an AI agent on a serverless platform, what you need from a host instead, and how those pieces fit together on Suga.

• How to deploy an MCP server to production (the easy way!)

  Aug 15, 2026sugamcpdeploymentai-agents

  What changes when your MCP server moves out of your dev machine and into production, what you need from a host, and how to ship one on Suga.

• Ghost mushrooms

  Aug 7, 2026photographywildlife

  A failed night out looking for a powerful owl that led to bioluminscent mushrooms.

  
• 9 Heroku Alternatives Worth Trying in 2026

  Aug 1, 2026herokupaasdeploymentcomparison

  A practical, opinionated tour of the platforms teams reach for when they outgrow Heroku, including cloud PaaS, edge platforms, Kubernetes-simplified options, and self-hosted OSS.

• Handing docker-compose to Claude via MCP

  Jul 27, 2026sugadocker-composemcpclaudedeployment

  Point Claude at a container platform's MCP server, hand it a docker-compose.yml, and get a reviewed production draft back, walked through with a real Laravel stack going onto Suga.