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Meet the engineer behind self-hosted Ghost
Austin Burdine started contributing to Ghost more than ten years ago, back when contributor chat still ran on IRC. Frustrated by how many manual steps self-hosting took, Austin built Ghost CLI and maintained it for a decade. In June 2026 Austin joined the Ghost Foundation's new platform team – and one of the first projects was deprecating Ghost CLI in favour of the official Docker setup. "The longest interview process at Ghost," as the team joked.
Jannis and Austin get into what the platform team actually does, why a 20 MB memory increase matters when you run tens of thousands of sites, and…
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