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by quickthrower2 918 days ago
As a developer I love the idea. Choosing Postgres over say a GraphQL API is bold, but it makes sense. The customer can then scale up their Postgres instance as they hammer it more and more, and they might already being using this for their app, so developers can add it to their ORM. Or they could wrap this in a microservice.

I also liked the submission recently about a git client that uses SQL. I like the idea that more things can be exposed as SQL (either directly or by syncing with a RDBMS). There is a lot of good tooling around it and despite the S not meaning Standard, the dialects are close enough that it isn't a problem.

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Agreed! We’re big fans of consolidating in Postgres. We’re also hearing some downstream benefits to having things scaled in Postgres (makes reporting easier, allows the data team to use SQL rather than hitting an API, etc) from our users.