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I find geoserver to be a bit of a headache to run, and have been moving more towards client side rendering using map ox style tools.

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Do you know of any good alternatives to geoserver if i have a PostGIS db with some feature gis data and i need to expose it to other people through a Web Feature Service?

If you're just looking for a WFS (geojson/data) and not WMS/raster output, you might look at PyGeoAPI. (https://pygeoapi.io/) I haven't used it, but have looked at it a bit for a potential project to export geo data as an API.

Geoserver does fill a pretty big hole in the capabilities space -- it's pretty easy to get going with a bunch of layers and style them, but ultimately they're implementing a RDBMS in xml files, and it's a big, complicated, java system that's been one of the more troublesome portions of the stack (IME).

Thanks a bunch, pygeoapi sounds very simple, i'll take a look.

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