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    Crazy Idea to Postgres in the Browser

    Joey Mezzacappa

    We just launched our Postgres Playground. Running Postgres in the web browser was not exactly commonplace before, so naturally, people are wondering how it works.

    It actually started as a fun weekend experiment. Here's a screenshot I saved, just moments after recovering from the initial "whoa, it's working!" effect.

    Screenshot of PostgreSQL running in the Chrome web browser

    The next morning, I shared this screenshot in our internal Slack channel for web frontend engineering. Our mental gears began to turn as we imagined what might (and might not) be possible. After a bit of work, we built upon some interesting ideas, and this fun weekend hack evolved into what is now the Postgres Playground

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