Should new infrastructure use PostgreSQL as a query engine, or aim for protocol compatibility instead?
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last?
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GraphQL
GraphQL is a query language designed to build client applications by providing an intuitive and flexible syntax and system for describing their data requirements and interactions.
Standard Search
A search engine for standard.site posts, indexing documents published on AT Protocol.
ParadeDB — Search without a second system
One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.
Against SQL
But SQL is the only widely-used implementation of the relational model, and it is:
Protocols for Publishers
A series bringing together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a sustainable agentic web.
Protocols for Publishers Showcase · Luma
Protocols for Publishers is an event and workshop series that brings together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a…
Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/
The Purpose of Protocols
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Paul Frazee
New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralizati…
Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols+standards to gain independence. Next month in NYC let's discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers pfp.unternet.co
Protocols for Publishers
pfp.unternet.copgsky 0.2.0 — the Bluesky client that lives inside PostgreSQL — is now public OAuth, DPoP, timeline, posts, replies, threads, all as SQL procedures and views. Plus a Rust TUI styled like a database admin tool It's early, but we got this :)
GitHub - FormerLab/pgsky: An AT Protocol / Bluesky client implemented as a PostgreSQL extension. The database is the application
github.comEasier interoperability between these two open protocols is exciting.
A New Social
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