Looks interesting but needs a few more language libraries to demonstrate broader utility outside of just Ruby projects.
Building on top of generic Postgres using a simple service is pretty neat but without the extra client libraries it’s hard to see a bright future.
The npm module doesn’t look like it actually does anything besides unzip and run the dB setup code at the moment so it’s definitely early days for them. But with a few basic client libraries that can actually do the work of publishing and subscribing to messages, this will be a pretty neat tool.
Publishing and subscribing are through SQL SELECT statements which can be called straight forward enough from most or all languages. Administering it does indeed require shell or ruby.
Better still in my opinion if possible, implement your business logic in PL/pgSQL procs with these SELECTs within them and call them from whatever client/frontend you are using. I know it's not cool right now but there's big advantages and a disadvantage to putting business logic in the DB is said to be vendor lock but when it comes to Postgres, lock me up and throw away the key.
Building on top of generic Postgres using a simple service is pretty neat but without the extra client libraries it’s hard to see a bright future.
The npm module doesn’t look like it actually does anything besides unzip and run the dB setup code at the moment so it’s definitely early days for them. But with a few basic client libraries that can actually do the work of publishing and subscribing to messages, this will be a pretty neat tool.
I’m going to have to watch how this develops.