I absolutely love this. I think so called n-tier architecture as a pattern should be aggressively battled in the attempt to reduce the n. Software is so much mo

I absolutely love this. I think so called n-tier architecture as a pattern should be aggressively battled in the attempt to reduce the n. Software is so much more reliable when the communication between different computational modules of the system are function calls as opposed to IPC calls. Why does everything that computes something or provides some data need to be a process? It doesn't. Postgresql and every other server/process should have first class support for a single CLI command that: spins up the DB that slurps up the config and the data storage, takes the SQL command provided through the CLI arguments, runs it, returns results and terminates. Effectively, every server/process software should be a library first, since it's easy to make a server out of a library and the reverse is anything but.