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Clickops

(noun): An IT practitioner who manages complex systems exclusively through web interfaces and wizards, proudly refusing to learn CLI commands because “the GUI is just easier, okay?” Known for creating production-critical infrastructure via a sequence of barely-recalled mouse clicks that can never, ever be reproduced again.

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Here is the new Wildfly 38.0.1.Final… ehm… where?

So, the Renovate Bot created a PR about the Wildfly version update to 38.0.1.Final from 38.0.0.Final. Business-as-usual, like hundreds of PR before, the Gitlab’s pipeline started, and, its failed: Okay, it is also business-as-usual, there are changes that cause code that used to work to not work anymore, but it usually happens when a breaking

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Docker image for Android builds

I’ve been looking for a good and up-to-date Docker image for a while, one that can build Android apk and bundle files as part of a CI/CD pipeline, because the MobileDevOps team stopped updating their image a year and a half ago, their latest image version only supports the Android API level 34 and the

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Query queue depth in Wildfly

What do we want? To query how many messages (and scheduled messages) are in a JMS queue. How can we achieve this? The JMS API does not provide the ability or tools to do this, but we can query this data from Wildfly/JBoss CLI, so that, the information is present on runtime: However, if it

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Technical debt – paid

Finally, I’ve just upgraded the Wildfly v26.0.1 (released on January 21, 2022) to Wildfly v38.0.0 (released on October 16, 2025), under the hood of the Power of Planets project. There was a big and significant technical debt in the files that I’d been carrying for months – what months?! – years. The main reason was

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