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Elsewhere on the Web
The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless by Corey Quinn
I suggest that serverless computing, or “serverless” has hype that at this point has outpaced what the technology / philosophy / religion has been promising.
The Unfulfilled Potential of Serverless by Jeremy Daly
[…] we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible with serverless technology.
Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON by Phil Eaton
PostgreSQL comes with a builtin imperative programming language called PL/pgSQL. I used to think this language was scary because it has a bit more adornment than your usual language does. But looking deeper, it’s actually reasonably pleasant to program in.