StealthyCoder

My adventure of installing Postgresql 13 on Windows Server without using Docker was met with some resistance. For some reason the installer could not run because it did not have enough permissions to write to a certain folder?

So I learned this the hard way, but in reactive programming, aka my WebFlux project. Do not ever use Void as a type. Just wrap it in something you can propagate like Object, String or Boolean or something else.

Sometimes you need to run Docker containers in different circumstances, like on Raspberry Pi's or you have systems that are just wired differently (Alpine) and sometimes even a combination of those (Alpine on a BananaPi) and you do not always have everything laying around to reproduce it. So what do you do?

There was a problem on a server we did not control. It was managed by a third party and we only got a service account. Since things were down and I did not have full root access I got a bit annoyed waiting for them to respond back.

I decided to take matters into my own hands.

You cannot really tell from this site, as I chose not to use date timestamps on the articles, but I have not written an article in quite some time. I underwent therapy and dealt with a higher than normal workload for quite some time.

I just skimmed/read this article. It states that PHP is just as good as Rust/C/Java. That the opinion that it is bad is just 10 years out of date.

The other day I realised there is no real good way to share the same DTO models between your backend and your frontend even though that is the common code they need. Let us say an endpoint returns a simple representation of a user like a profile. That profile is needed to be displayed in the frontend again as well. Now if you code in full JavaScript you might get away with just accessing the properties or keys as you might just work with the JSON directly. However as things stand now, there is more and more TypeScript and therefore you need to redefine the same DTO in the frontend now before you can use it.

Speaking of learning the basic tools, I think I learned enough of running docker on multiple platforms that I now have a nice setup that is the perfect Docker image that fits as a very perfect boilerplate template to create all your future images with.

Today there was a big outage on GitHub, that happens sometimes. Nothing you can do about that. However therefore CircleCI was also experiencing outages. I imagine more services rely in this way on GitHub, not to mention it is the one central pool of knowledge for what is effectively the modern civilisation.

I wrote a piece on microservices and nanoservices and how that is not the way to move forward.