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Serve an LLM with vLLM on CPU in Docker: Learn the Production Engine Without a GPU (2026)
We ran vLLM v0.25.1's official CPU image in Docker on Apple Silicon, dodged a 10 GB CUDA decoy, survived three traps, an...
Run ComfyUI on CPU in Docker: Node-Graph Image Generation Without a GPU (2026)
We pinned ComfyUI v0.28.0 in a python:3.13-slim container, hit a torchaudio ABI trap and an 8 GB OOM kill, and still ren...
Self-Host LiteLLM with Docker: One OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint for Every Model (2026)
We ran LiteLLM v1.93.0 against a local Ollama model in Docker: pinned tags, a 4-line config, token metering, and the wro...
How to Transcribe Speech Offline with whisper.cpp in Docker (2026)
We ran whisper.cpp v1.9.1 in Docker: an amd64-only tag trap, a SIGILL crash, a gcc fp16 build fix — then 7.3 s of speech...
Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs Pinecone: Vector Databases for RAG (2026)
Four vector databases compared for RAG in 2026: licenses, Docker self-host commands, embedded modes, managed pricing fro...
Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI vs Jina Reader vs Browser Use — Getting Web Data Into Your LLM (2026)
Four open-source ways to feed web data to an LLM compared: licenses, self-host parity, pricing bases, robots.txt default...
How to Self-Host the AutoGPT Platform with Docker (2026)
We self-hosted the AutoGPT Platform v0.6.68 with Docker on a busy dev Mac: 17 containers, two port collisions, and a fir...
Self-Host Langflow with Docker: The Visual Agent Builder, Locked Down (2026)
We ran Langflow 1.10.2 in a single Docker container, hit its fail-closed auth gate, fixed it with explicit superuser cre...
Self-Host Firecrawl with Docker: Scrape the Web into LLM-Ready Markdown (2026)
We cloned Firecrawl v2.11.0, built its seven-service Docker stack, and scraped our own homepage into clean markdown — no...
Self-Host Dify with Docker Compose: 15 Containers to Your Own LLM App Studio (2026)
We deployed Dify 1.16.0 on Docker Desktop, hit a real port clash, wired DeepSeek, and built a working chatflow — every c...
AutoGPT vs OpenHands vs MetaGPT vs CrewAI: Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks (2026)
The four most-starred open-source agent frameworks compared on licenses, activity, MCP support, and pricing — stars no l...
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