SQL as an API

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll know that recently there is an uptake in popularity of “Functions as a service”. In the open source community, the OpenFaaS project from Alex Ellis has received good traction, and recently Amazon Lambda announced support for Go. These systems allow you to scale with demand, and execute your CLI programs via API.

Motivation behind Lambda/FaaS

Let’s call this for what it is - the whole “serverless” movemen...