Foundry status update: making it practical to operate
Self-hosted storage, scalable routing and a working nightly Snapshot: a progress report on the less visible work that makes Foundry usable in practice.
Exploratory engineering notebook
Labs @ K-Int.com
A place to document small increments, open questions, and practical experiments as K-Int's founder reconnects with the original desire to innovate in an agile way.
Latest increments
Recent posts
Short notes from active experiments, written as milestones land across the wider K-Int workspace.
Maintenance needs operational visibility
A stuck Open Access module led us from a shared locking defect to our first live Foundry tenant upgrade, making the less visible work of sustainable maintenance concrete.
Making the value beyond Apache visible
Release Frontier turns K-Int's FSL release history, audited delivery effort and Apache publication state into an understandable case for sponsoring earlier community releases.
Search paths
Topic routes
Stable entry points for readers searching around FOLIO ERM, Licenses, Agreements, Stripes modules, and Okapi alternatives.
Working principles
How the lab writes
Record the increment
Capture what changed, why it mattered, and what was learned before the context fades.
Keep production separate
Make the distinction between company delivery and exploratory learning explicit.
Integrate streams
Let related projects contribute their own progress while the repo keeps the narrative joined up.