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That's great! Corpo beancounters want us to move off docker on EC2 onto bare metal, making both dev and deploy experience terrible. This will help ease pain!

samstave 2y ago
Weird question: Since you mention 'bare-metal' and this is "enables you to run Postgres in the browser" UH, could you do: bare_metal --> HeadlessGPU-Chrome --> PGLite with whatever orchesrtration and you have a an automatable 'browser' that can scrape/store/logic/log/be-config'd from/lookup directly to your browserDB and maybe run a fastAPI ontop of such that you have a full stack, baremetal, headless, browserDB/fastAPI/endpoint processing doohicky? Or does this sound dumb? Because this is exactly what I actually need and am attempting to create - but its beyond my capabilities in any functional/elegant implementation... https://www.browserless.io/blog/browserless-gpu-instances https://www.browserless.io/blog/browserless-gpu-instances https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers
- samwillis 2y ago
  PGlite also runs in Node and Bun, so you can easily run it on backend servers. (couldn't fit that in the HN headline)
  - samstave 2y ago
    Sorry if this is in the RTFM; So, you can basically use this to deploy a portable fully enclosed little webapp. Basically any little web-app that has a bunch of backend DB: A sales USB drive that loads a page that then has the pglite of all your product stuff on there. and you can just provide custom buttons to slurp data either way. Utils to yank a [data] from a postgress server, onto your little sneaker-DB-USB -- then carry it over and to a DB function... A little util USB that you already have it setup such that you can curl a bunch of data directly into tables on your little headless-browser-pglite minion? Full Kisok DB USB (SSD) upgrades. Basically - running a pico headless postgress DB with a webUI? --- aside: samwillis March 2008 samstave March 2009 :-) --- WOW: https://i.imgur.com/6YLwEuj.png https://i.imgur.com/6YLwEuj.png -- Yeah this is pretty dopes.
    - samwillis 2y ago
      Yep exactly, either in the browser, or using something like Electron to package it as a desktop app. :-)
- isoprophlex 2y ago
  It doesn't need so many moving parts imo. I was thinking to just grab the npm package and slap a tiny TS interface on top of that to mock my bespoke vector db. In the vein of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225080
cheema33 2y ago
> Corpo beancounters want us to move off docker on EC2 onto bare metal There is a very good reason for it. EC2 is way way overpriced.
postalrat 2y ago
And you can't have your own docker on bare metal?

samstave 2y ago

Weird question: Since you mention 'bare-metal' and this is "enables you to run Postgres in the browser" UH, could you do: bare_metal --> HeadlessGPU-Chrome --> PGLite with whatever orchesrtration and you have a an automatable 'browser' that can scrape/store/logic/log/be-config'd from/lookup directly to your browserDB and maybe run a fastAPI ontop of such that you have a full stack, baremetal, headless, browserDB/fastAPI/endpoint processing doohicky? Or does this sound dumb? Because this is exactly what I actually need and am attempting to create - but its beyond my capabilities in any functional/elegant implementation... https://www.browserless.io/blog/browserless-gpu-instances https://www.browserless.io/blog/browserless-gpu-instances https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers

samwillis 2y ago
PGlite also runs in Node and Bun, so you can easily run it on backend servers. (couldn't fit that in the HN headline)
- samstave 2y ago
  Sorry if this is in the RTFM; So, you can basically use this to deploy a portable fully enclosed little webapp. Basically any little web-app that has a bunch of backend DB: A sales USB drive that loads a page that then has the pglite of all your product stuff on there. and you can just provide custom buttons to slurp data either way. Utils to yank a [data] from a postgress server, onto your little sneaker-DB-USB -- then carry it over and to a DB function... A little util USB that you already have it setup such that you can curl a bunch of data directly into tables on your little headless-browser-pglite minion? Full Kisok DB USB (SSD) upgrades. Basically - running a pico headless postgress DB with a webUI? --- aside: samwillis March 2008 samstave March 2009 :-) --- WOW: https://i.imgur.com/6YLwEuj.png https://i.imgur.com/6YLwEuj.png -- Yeah this is pretty dopes.
  - samwillis 2y ago
    Yep exactly, either in the browser, or using something like Electron to package it as a desktop app. :-)
isoprophlex 2y ago
It doesn't need so many moving parts imo. I was thinking to just grab the npm package and slap a tiny TS interface on top of that to mock my bespoke vector db. In the vein of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225080

cheema33 2y ago

> Corpo beancounters want us to move off docker on EC2 onto bare metal There is a very good reason for it. EC2 is way way overpriced.

postalrat 2y ago

And you can't have your own docker on bare metal?