You can start by using Apache Benchmark: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html

How does this compare to Apache Shiro?

I'm not an expert on Shiro, but there are a number of high level differences, e.g.,

- Shiro covers authorization, plus authentication, session mgt, etc. The Carta project is authorization only

- Shiro relies on external data to make authorization decisions. The Carta project stores that data internally

- Shiro is run as part of your app. The Carta project is run as a separate service

    - Related: Shiro is specific to Java.

Shiro is a framework. This is a service that checks (static) permissions.

Fidelity has $0.65 per contract

That is how most toll systems work. You load up a balance on the card $10/$20 and it deducts every time you cross a checkpoint.

The difference between this and a micropayment platform would be the fees. In the toll system, the fees are paid once. With a micropayment platform, the fees would be per transaction.

There can be a "self hosted" version of such a platform that say each content-provider can host but I am not sure it will work out against the cost of maintaining it includes much more than just hosting (securty, auditing, refunds, taxes etc).

Oof I still remember the update that disabled re-sizing of the text box and people were up in arms about it. And there was a fork of Pidgin over it.

I have been using Fastmail for a few years now. Pretty happy with them.

Scaling is only half of it. There is a lot more to Jira than just CRUD over a few entities. It's trying to be issue tracking and project management rolled into one. For example:

- Workflows

- Access control over fields

- Custom fields

- Release management

- 3P plugins and integrations

- API access

I am far from being a fan of Jira but they do have a rather large set of features. Every time I evaluate the hottest new issue tracking and/or project management solution, there is something lacking as compared to Jira.

I've often half-joked that the road to JIRA is paved with other project management tools and ticketing systems.

I don't think anybody really sets out with the intent of using the one reputedly cumbersome tool that can do anything - but after growth and pivots and new requirements and new teams and special workflows... you end up needing a combination of features that is literally impossible to get with any other tool, and who wants to fracture into multiple tools?

So you get JIRA. And it just does it all, and even if nobody is overjoyed, nobody feels like they lost, either. There's value in that.

https://restya.com/core-jira-slack-alternative seems to have covered all these area. (I'm on their beta program)

An automated pet door. My dog loves to go in and out of the house every five minutes and whines annoyingly if he doesn't.

link?

I built the first version of IntelliJ plugin[1] to make working with the reactor stuff easier. Doesn't look like there have been much improvements to it.

1: https://github.com/amzn/ion-intellij-plugin

Absolutely! I've used picocli[1] and airline[2]. There is always the Apache Commons CLI if you feel like building it all yourself.

1: https://picocli.info/

2: https://github.com/airlift/airline

Bonus: picocli lets you create native images using Graal, so you can really build native cli executable using Java.