From my point of view the real challenge comes when you want high availability and need to setup a Postgres cluster.

With MongoDB you simply create a replicaset and you are done.

When planing a Postgres cluster, you need to understand replication options, potentially deal with Patroni. Zalandos Docker Spilo image is not really maintained, the way to go seems CloudNativePG, but that requires k8s.

I still don’t understand why there is no easy built-in Postgres cluster solution.

I prefer WG-Easy (https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy), which uses a Docker container, not ansible.

> I don't understand why so many people are using [Cloudflare].

> "Let us handle all your internet traffic.. you can trust us.. []"

TLS does not help, when most Internet traffic is passed through a single entity, which by default will use an edge TLS certificate and re-encrypt all data passing through, so will have decrypted plain text visibility to all data transmitted.

It's not a k8s replacement. It's for the small dev team with no k8s experience. For people that might not use Docker Swarm because they see it's a pretty dead project. For people who think "everyone uses k8s", so we should, too.

I need to run on-prem, so managed k8s is not an option. Experts tells me I should have 2 FTE to run k8s, which I don't have. k8s has so many components, how should I debug that in case of issues without k8s experience? k8s APIs change continuously, how should I manage that without k8s experience?

It's not a k8s replacement. But I do see a sweet spot for such a solution. We still run Docker Swarm on 5 servers, no hyperscalers, no API changes expected ;-)

I still run docker swarm on 3 servers. Haven't needed to update it much over the past 5 years.

How was your Swarm experience so far? It's so disappointing that Docker seems to slowly but steadily abandoning it. There is only a couple dozen mainly maintenance commits in the swarmkit repo for the entire 2025 year :sigh:

"Cold Storage" by American screenwriter David Koepp comes to mind, a comedy splatter novel. I don't usually read such books, but this one was funny and entertaining.

Apparently set to become a movie, starring Liam Neeson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Storage_(film)

Thanks for explaining and the link, missed that in the announcement.

Looks a little bit like Svelte.

Sounds like the early days of the web, when cookies weren’t widely used.

User sessions were created with a URL query parameter, like `?sessionid=`, and every page would pick up the sessionid and include it in every link on the page.

That is just cookies. What GP was suggesting was a history trail, not a session id.

"NOTE: THIS IS R&D total cost. The DIY price should be less than $1500"

Thank you for this.

Who are you, which legal jurisdiction is your company located in? What is your target group? Selling local or global? Every jurisdiction probably has different rules what needs to be included on an invoice.

If you serve the U.S., then you need to calculate all the different sales taxes for each state. If you serve the E.U., you need to create PDF with included standardized XML soon. Don't know about other continents.

I think invoices are not about quick and pretty anymore, but there is a lot more to consider. You should make it clear what you provide and for which target customer.

Im currently talking to all users to make sure the system can provide exactly what they need for each country.

This is also why theres a free trial. To make sure that users see what the system is capable off before they buy it. I never want to take money from people without providing value.

It seems their official Docker image is 5 years old.