Our tech stack was largely Microsoft based. We had a classic ASP website and we ran on SQL Server. Everything kinda ran well, but what we lacked was any sort of contigency. We’d grown so quickly that no-one had had the time to think about disaster recovery or database backups or even source control.
Unit and integration testing didn’t exist, exception handling was minimal and problems were fixed as we found them - in production.
You can see where this is going.
PostgreSQL 12, released October 3rd 2019, offers the SQL/JSON Path Language - a way to query and filter data in JSON objects not too dissimilar to how XPath queries XML.
There is of course, a certain irony to Microsoft’s January 15th, 2020 release of Microsoft Edge and its loudly-beating, freshly-transplanted heart.
I never really paid much attention my whole life. They were always there although I could never name many of its members. The show has reminded me of the Queen's husband's name and given me ample opportunity to practice English in as posh an accent as I can muster.