Month: July 2024

After the CrowdStrike incident, I decided to remind everyone that Windows has no business running business critical applications. In this article I will cover why it’s not a good idea and why it’s a great idea to have UNIX/Linux derivatives to run business critical applications.

First let’s describe how Windows evolved into the operating system of today and why it cannot change its core architecture to accomodate business critical applications die to the lack of of what I call foundational security. Continue reading “The case for UNIX to run your business critical applications and not Windows”

Did you ever wanted to run a Minecraft server, but after looking at the instructions, tried different ways, at in the end, gave up? Or you just want a quick and easy way to run a Minecraft server? Well this article is for you.

I am going to show you how to quickly get a integrated Minecraft server, bedrock and Java into a single configuration executed in docker containers.

In order to accomplish this, we need to run two products, a spigot server and a geyser server, a spigot is a high performance Java Minecraft server, and a geyser server is a gateway for bedrock clients to use a Java server. Continue reading “Run Minecraft (Spigot) and Geyser server in Containers”