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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.

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The Unfulfilled Potential of Serverless by Jeremy Daly

[…] we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible with serverless technology.

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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.