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Platform updates, product releases, infrastructure improvements, and Studio announcements. Updated regularly.


Feb 25
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: JWT and Token Authentication: A Practical Security Guide

JWT structure, RS256 vs HS256, the alg:none vulnerability, refresh token rotation, token revocation strategies, and secu

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Feb 25
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: ZFS for Self-Hosted Infrastructure: Pools, Datasets, and Data Integrity

RAIDZ2 pool design, dataset hierarchy, compression, snapshots, send/receive replication, scrubs, and ECC RAM — the ZFS s

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Feb 25
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Loki Log Aggregation with Promtail: The Grafana Stack's Missing Piece

Label design, LogQL queries, Promtail pipeline stages, correlation with Prometheus metrics, and production deployment pa

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February2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing for Microservices

Auto-instrumentation, manual spans, context propagation, exporting to Jaeger and Grafana Tempo, and the tracing setup us

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February2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: GDPR Compliance Engineering: A Developer's Practical Guide

Data minimisation, consent mechanisms, right-to-erasure implementation, audit logging for GDPR, and the compliance engin

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Feb 25
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: Tailscale and Headscale: Zero-Config Mesh VPN for Self-Hosted Infrastructure

How Tailscale works, when to self-host the control plane with Headscale, ACLs for zero-trust network policy, and subnet

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Feb 25
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: TLS Certificate Automation with Certbot and ACME

HTTP-01 vs DNS-01 challenges, wildcard certificates, Nginx TLS hardening, auto-renewal, and Prometheus expiry alerting.

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Feb 25
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Ansible for Infrastructure Automation: Playbooks That Scale

Idempotent playbooks, roles, inventory management, Ansible Vault, and rolling update patterns for self-hosted server fle

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Feb 24
2026
BlogQA

Blog: k6 Load Testing: From Zero to Production Benchmarks

Virtual user ramps, thresholds, authenticated scenarios, InfluxDB output, and the five test types every production syste

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Feb 24
2026
BlogQA

Blog: Playwright E2E Testing: A Practical Guide for Production Test Suites

Page Object Model, auth fixtures, parallel execution, network interception, and CI sharding — the Playwright patterns be

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Feb 24
2026
Case StudyQA

Case Study: Fintech Playwright E2E suite

94 automated tests, 5-day regression to 2 hours, k6 load testing that caught a connection pool bug before production.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Grafana Dashboards That Don't Lie: From Prometheus to Panels

PromQL for the RED and USE methods, Loki log correlation, alert rules from panels, variable templating, and dashboard or

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Feb 24
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: Passkeys and WebAuthn in 2026: Implementation Guide

WebAuthn registration and authentication flows, resident keys, cross-device passkeys, attestation, and fallback strategy

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: GitHub Actions CI/CD for Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Self-hosted runners, Vault secrets injection, environment protection gates, reusable workflows, and artifact-based rollb

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Feb 24
2026
Case StudyCommunications

Case Study: Romanian media communication platform

Matrix homeserver, 47Comms SMS alerts, and editorial workflow integration for a 120-person media organisation. 98.7% SMS delivery rate.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Redis for Application Developers: Caching, Queues, and Pub/Sub

Connection pooling, cache invalidation, BullMQ job queues, pub/sub for real-time events, sorted-set rate limiters, and R

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Backup Strategy for Self-Hosted Infrastructure: Restic + Object Storage

Encrypted deduplicated Restic backups to S3-compatible storage, retention policies, integrity verification, and automate

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Nginx as a Reverse Proxy: TLS, Rate Limiting, and Upstream Health

TLS termination with OCSP stapling, three rate-limiting zones for auth and API endpoints, upstream health checks, JSON l

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Feb 24
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: SSH hardening checklist published

Complete SSH hardening guide: key-only auth, algorithm hardening, fail2ban configuration, a full hardened sshd_config, and Teleport for team-scale SSH access management.

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Feb 24
2026
Case StudyQA

Case study: Government portal accessibility and QA audit published

Published case study for a Romanian government e-services portal: WCAG 2.1 AA compliance audit, 140 Playwright tests, k6 load testing, and full CI integration in 8 weeks.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: PostgreSQL for developers guide published

Practical guide to production PostgreSQL: PgBouncer connection pooling, partial indexes, covering indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, VACUUM tuning, and essential postgresql.conf settings.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: WireGuard site-to-site VPN guide published

Published a practical guide to WireGuard site-to-site VPN setup — key generation, routing configuration, persistent keepalives, and multi-site mesh topologies.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Email deliverability & WireGuard guides published

Published two infrastructure guides: SPF/DKIM/DMARC explained with deployment sequence, and WireGuard site-to-site VPN setup with routing and key management.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Makefile guide published

Published a practical guide to writing maintainable Makefiles — phony targets, automatic variables, pattern rules, and a self-documenting help target convention.

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Feb 24
2026
Case StudyHardware

Case Study: Proxmox HA cluster for Bucharest media company published

Published the seventh Studio case study — three-node Proxmox VE cluster replacing VMware ESXi, 27 VMs migrated with zero unplanned downtime, ZFS RAIDZ2 storage, and PBS deduplicated backups.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Proxmox VE for production guide published

Published a practical guide to running Proxmox VE in production — ZFS storage, HA clustering with QDevice, Proxmox Backup Server, and the network configuration that prevents 3am failures.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: Argon2id vs bcrypt vs scrypt published

Published a practical comparison of password hashing algorithms — how each works, when to use each, and how to benchmark and tune Argon2id parameters for your production hardware.

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Feb 24
2026
BlogSecurity

Blog: Tamper-proof audit trail architecture guide published

Published a deep-dive on cryptographically chained, append-only audit logs — covering the six required properties, SHA-256 hash chaining mechanics, external anchoring with S3 Object Lock, and how this architecture works inside Sven Agent.

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Feb 23
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: HashiCorp Vault secrets management guide published

Published a practical guide to migrating from environment-variable secrets to HashiCorp Vault — KV engine, AppRole auth, dynamic database credentials, the Kubernetes Agent Injector, and six operational gotchas.

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Feb 23
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Docker Compose vs Kubernetes guide published

Published a practical guide to choosing between Docker Compose and Kubernetes for self-hosted infrastructure — covering team size thresholds, what Compose doesn't do, a decision table for common scenarios, and the Compose production checklist.

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Feb 21
2026
BlogInfrastructure

Blog: Keycloak SSO setup guide published

Published a practical Keycloak SSO setup guide for small teams — realm config, OIDC clients, MFA/TOTP enforcement, and production hardening. Based on Studio deployment experience.

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Feb 23
2026
StudioCase Study

Case study published: e-commerce zero-trust auth & QA

Published a new Studio case study: 14-week engagement delivering 47ID SSO unification across 5 internal tools and a full automated QA pipeline (Playwright, k6, GitHub Actions) for a European e-commerce platform — in partnership with TestGate Studio.

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Feb 20
2026
Feature47Sentry

47Sentry: NetMapper live topology export

NetMapper now exports live topology data via REST API and optional Prometheus metrics. Integrate observed network topology directly into Grafana dashboards. Graph format: nodes are hosts, edges are observed connections weighted by traffic volume and recency.

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Feb 12
2026
Product47Comms

47Comms: carrier failover now automatic

The routing layer now maintains per-carrier health scores from delivery receipt windows. Unhealthy carriers are deprioritised automatically — no manual failover required. Secondary carrier configuration now available for all plans.

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Feb 5
2026
InfrastructurePlatform

Kyverno policy engine deployed platform-wide

All 47Network Kubernetes clusters now run Kyverno for policy enforcement, replacing ad-hoc RBAC rules with declarative, version-controlled policies: no privileged containers, required resource limits, mandatory audit labels, approved registries only.

Feb 20
2026
FEATURE 🤖 Sven Agent

Sven Agent enters public beta

After four months of private testing with 12 design partners, Sven Agent is now open for early access. Early adopters get unlimited missions during the beta period.

OpenClaw Protocol v1.0 — the open agent-gateway protocol spec is now published and stable
Mission Control UI — real-time step-by-step execution viewer with live telemetry
Approval workflow engine — human-in-the-loop gates with configurable escalation chains
Tamper-proof audit trail — Ed25519-signed, offline-verifiable execution logs
Helm chart — one-command self-hosted Kubernetes deployment
Sven Agent →
Feb 15
2026
INFRASTRUCTURE

Platform migrated to Argo CD GitOps

All 47Network product deployments are now fully managed via Argo CD with continuous sync from our private Git repository. Every change is auditable, reversible, and reproducible.

Zero-downtime deployments across all products via blue-green strategy
Drift detection — automatic reconciliation if cluster state deviates from Git
Full rollback capability to any previous Git commit
Kyverno policy engine enforcing pod security standards on all workloads
Jan 28
2026
FEATURE 🔑 PassVault

PassVault v2.1: passkey support + emergency access

PassVault now supports FIDO2 passkeys as a second factor, and introduces emergency access — a trusted contact can request access after a configurable waiting period.

FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys — hardware key or device biometrics as MFA
Emergency access — zero-knowledge trustee system; vault owner is notified and can deny
Import from 1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass — CSV + proprietary format support
Vault health dashboard — weak, reused, old, and breached password detection
Performance: 3× faster initial vault decrypt on mobile via Web Workers
Jan 20
2026
PRODUCT ✉ 47mail

47mail: custom domain support and alias routing

Self-hosted 47mail deployments can now serve multiple custom domains with per-domain policies. Alias routing allows receive-only addresses that forward to your primary inbox.

Multi-domain support — single deployment serves unlimited custom domains
Alias system — unlimited receive-only aliases, trackable and revokable per sender
Admin dashboard — domain management, user quotas, delivery logs
DKIM/SPF/DMARC — automated key rotation and DNS record management
Jan 12
2026
STUDIO

Studio capacity expansion: 4 new engagements open

Following strong Q4 2025 demand, the Studio has expanded capacity. We're now accepting four new infrastructure engagements starting February 2026.

Zero-Trust Infrastructure — 2 slots available for Q1 2026
Matrix Homeserver — 1 slot available
Security Audits — rolling intake, 3–4 week turnaround
Healthcare and legal sector clients prioritized for GDPR-critical engagements
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Dec 18
2025
INFRASTRUCTURE

47ID (Keycloak) upgraded to v26 — enhanced MFA flows

The centralized identity provider for all 47Network products has been upgraded to Keycloak v26 with conditional MFA, improved WebAuthn support, and a redesigned account console.

Conditional MFA — step-up authentication based on risk signals
WebAuthn improvements — passkey discovery, cross-device flow
Zero downtime migration — rolling update with automatic database schema migration
Dec 10
2025
PRODUCT ✂ CutUR Link

CutUR Link v3.0: analytics overhaul and custom domains

Major release: rebuilt analytics backend, custom domain support for Pro/Team, and a new link-in-bio feature.

Analytics v3 — real-time click streams, geographic breakdown, device/referrer analysis
Custom domains — use your own domain as the short URL base
Link-in-bio — hosted profile page with unlimited links, free for all accounts
QR code generation — SVG export with brand color customization
CutUR Link →
Dec 5
2025
FIX 🔑 PassVault

PassVault: resolved TOTP sync issue on iOS 18

A timing edge case in the TOTP implementation caused intermittent failures on iOS 18 when system clock drift exceeded 15 seconds. Patched within 4 hours of report.

Extended TOTP window from ±1 to ±2 intervals to accommodate clock drift
Added server-side clock sync nudge for clients with significant drift
No vault data affected — this was a UI-only authentication flow issue
Nov 22
2025
FEATURE 🛡 47Sentry

47Sentry enters beta: eBPF-powered perimeter monitoring

47Sentry brings kernel-level network visibility to self-hosted environments. eBPF/XDP processes at line rate on commodity hardware.

NetMapper — automatic topology discovery with real-time graph visualization
Traffic Sentinel — anomaly detection and flow analysis with zero external dependencies
Edge firewall — XDP-based packet filtering with Prometheus metrics export
DNS resilience — redundant resolver with DNSSEC validation and local caching
47Sentry →
Nov 10
2025
STUDIO

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TestGate Studio as our dedicated QA and testing arm. All Studio engagements now optionally bring full-spectrum QA expertise — web, mobile, app, API, desktop, game, performance and automation — with 20+ years combined experience and an independent mandate to let no bug pass." data-ro="47Network Studio a partenariat cu TestGate Studio — QA complet — web, mobil, aplicații, API, jocuri, performanță și automatizare.">47Network Studio has partnered with TestGate Studio as our dedicated QA arm. Studio engagements now optionally include full-spectrum QA — web, mobile, app, API, desktop, game, performance and automation — via TestGate Studio.

QA available as standalone engagement or bundled with any infrastructure project
Playwright E2E, Vitest unit/integration, MSW API mocking, k6 load testing
Coverage reporting and CI/CD integration as standard deliverables
QA & Testing →
Oct 30
2025
INFRASTRUCTURE

HashiCorp Vault deployed — zero hardcoded secrets

All infrastructure now uses HashiCorp Vault. Dynamic secrets with automatic rotation have replaced all static credentials across every service and pipeline.

Dynamic database credentials — PostgreSQL and Redis secrets auto-rotated every 2 hours
PKI secrets engine — automated certificate issuance for all internal services
AWS/GCP secrets backend — for services with cloud storage dependencies
Zero hardcoded secrets across all 47Network services — verified via automated scanning
Sep 1
2025
LAUNCH

47Network platform launched

47Network goes live with the first cohort: CutUR Link (live), 47Comms (live), PassVault (beta), 47mail (beta). The Studio opens for infrastructure engagements.

CutUR Link — live, free tier available at cutur.link
47Comms — live, SMS inbox and voice at comms.the47network.com
PassVault — open beta with 1,000 early-access spots
47mail — open beta for self-hosted deployments only
Studio — open for zero-trust infrastructure and Matrix engagements

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