Check out this simple, easy API replacement: just set up Docker, APISIX, Grafana, Prometheus, etc. Does anyone else miss the old days of just editing your site's code and adding new columns to your MYSQL database while people were surfing your website? That was fun. Tip: Another way to turn your DB into an API is to just connect to it and then write SQL queries.
I miss aspects of those days, because I made a good bit of money from people who used MyISAM because "it's more performant" (or just because it was the default, yes, I'm dating myself here), and then corrupted their data because MyISAM didn't enforce constraints. Other than the easy money, nah, don't miss the old days that much. Having to use Reflector to decompile a core .NET library to figure out wtf it was doing b…
I remember reading "High-Performance MySQL" in mid-200s. It was a real eye-opener: all the things you needed from a DB where somewhat randomly available across the different storage mechanisms, but not in any consistent form.
Something like: Oh, you need query optimisation? Use one. You need constraints? Use the other. you need fast indexes? Use the first one again. And so on.
> Ah, the "good" ol days.
You'll pry my nostalgia from my cold dead hands!