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The Easiest Postgres Experience You've Ever Seen

a year ago | Postgres
Web Assembly is enabling people to do some crazy stuff in the browser, including running a full PostgreSQL installation and Adobe Photoshop!
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A few months ago my friend Craig Kerstiens decided to see what's possible with Web Assembly, the thing that runs Code That's Not JavaScript in the browser. If you're a Microsoft dev, you might have heard of Blazor, which compiles C# code to Web Assembly which then gets handed to the browser to run in-process.

It turns out that people are taking Web Assembly pretty seriously, including Adobe, which compiled PhotoShop and Acrobat to Web Assembly so you could run it in the browser!

Image from https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/

Love the image of the elephant... which reminds me... this post is mostly about Postgres, so let's get back to Craig's story...

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