Super sad to see this project get archived. I've really enjoyed working with it, it's been an amazing addition to projects where node-based data structures are obviously the move but I don't want to use server-based approaches.
Congrats on the more official launch! Super promising, first product that shares dbt-type data organization/orchestration capabilities with a compute layer worthy of replacing existing data warehouses/python environments.
Agree - V2 apps on machines are incredibly slick to launch (create/start/stop), get info on with graphql, and scale up and out. Magic. When the PG administration experience is that good I'll move it all over.
For a backend person, this is the easiest route - code in Python, built-in or commnunity-provided javascript/css tie-ins, makes sites that are easy to build and also look good. Only issue is that it can't be served statically, so you'd need to host it on a server - but you can get super cheap hosting <$10/mo.
Serverless DBaaS providers and HTTP APIs are a huge new development. Mongo Atlas Serverless, Planetscale (MySQL/Vitess https://planetscale.com), Upstash (Redis, https://upstash.com) and Neon (upcoming Postgres). They add features like merge requests on DDL and make managing DBs as easy as managing Lambda functions. This reduces maintenance overhead significantly.
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