WordPress is the worse “shareware” model

WordPress basic, which doesn’t have much functionality may be free and open, but the meat of it, the plugins, aren’t. The WordPress plugin ecosystem has grown from being an useful extension framework to a monster of “shareware”, trialware only set out to make a sale. Even the spamfilter Akismet, which once used to be free […]

Why do I need microservices?

Microservices are supposed to solve the scaling problem. Aka the solution to a monolith only being able to handle so many requests / second is microservices that potentially have replicas.

Upgrade Keycloak Standalone with Postgres from 16.1.0 to 17.0.0 with custom port behind nginx reverse proxy

What a nightmare. You’re using keycloak and are upgrading from Wildfly 16.1.0 to Quarkus 17.0.0. You’re also listening on a non-standard port, that isn’t 8080, but 23232. You’re using a reverse proxy like nginx for TLS and Keycloak is connected via plain http with nginx. Grab your standalone.xml found in /standalone/configuration/standalone.xml and find your postgres […]