PL/Scheme - Code is data
Sometimes it’s useful to bring data into code, and other times, it’s useful to bring code into data.
Why PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that supports complex query optimization, triggers, stored procedures, and functions. It has gained a good reputation for openness, feature richness, user-friendliness, and more.
Leaving MySQL
Today was my last day at Oracle, and thus also in the MySQL team. When a decision comes to switch workplaces, there’s always the question of “why”, but that question always has multiple answers, and perhaps the simplest one is that I found another opportunity, and and as a whole, it was obvious it was time to move on when that arrived. But it doesn’t really explain why I did go looking for that somewhere else in the first place.