https://exquisite.tube/videos/watch/d38c4010-5c94-465e-b367-906b3865c76a IT infrastructure is becoming ever more complex. To serve a simple modern web application we need orchestrators, containers, server side renderers and a bunch of 3. party tools and services. And this is in addition to the slew of dependencies it takes to get the application itself to run. An alternative approach might be to use a good old-fashioned web server to serve web pages, javascript and resources to a browser. In this talk I will present my, a BSD noob, experiences deploying a SPA web application directly on an OpenBSD vm using only the built-in web server (httpd) and other built-in tools without any docker, NodeJS or any other fancy dependencies. I will talk about meeting unknown commands, figuring out how to configure httpd and TLS using somewhat outdated descriptions and noticing interesting surprises in the logs. Besides being a fun little exercise, this is also about control of our systems. As we build systems with ever more layers of indirection we also increase risk for various supply chain vulnerabilities as well as not really understanding our systems. This talk also aims to show that it is possible to serve modern applications based on an understandable stack. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:03:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://exquisite.tube https://exquisite.tube/lazy-static/avatars/15cdbc2e-7773-4916-99e9-38207b20252d.png https://exquisite.tube/videos/watch/d38c4010-5c94-465e-b367-906b3865c76a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://exquisite.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.