https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/erik-thauvin/Articles written by Erik Thauvin on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usTue, 05 Mar 2024 06:42:47 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/why-i-moved-my-blog-to-rife2-after-23-years/Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:42:47 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/why-i-moved-my-blog-to-rife2-after-23-years/<p>In April 2023, I decided to move <a href="https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/" title="my blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">my blog</a> to <a href="https://rife2.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RIFE2</a> , a full-stack framework. It was previously built <a href="https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/stories//15/behind-this-blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">using my own custom JSP tag library</a> , which ran non-stop for 23 years. At one point in time, it was handling close to 5 connections per second, or around 12 million a month, on a single Apache/Tomcat instance.</p> <p>Over the years, I tried many frameworks, and the features never made up for the bloat. I&rsquo;ve also never been a big fan of the MVC approach, and I wanted it to be very lean. RIFE2 no-dependencies approach immediately appealed to me, but I wasn&rsquo;t sure the features passed muster.</p>