[craigkerstiens]

I believe they're referring to some tools like pg_tileserv which gives you a turnkey tile server on top of PostGIS. As it stands today we don't have anything to automatically run that app from Postgres itself (but stay tuned we might be launching something around that in just a few weeks). Tileserv is in an interesting category like many other turn key APIs or services (like PostgREST or Postgraphile) on top of a database, but I don't view them as different than say running a Django app for example.

[SahAssar]

I haven't django'd much, but to me a postgrest interface is very much different than having a bespoke app. With postgrest I can think of my app as interfacing with sql over a http translation layer, and things like authorization, data models, etc. are actually in the database.

I'm sure bespoke apps can be written to be as predictable and "database-like" as I found postgrest, but I haven't seen any.