Web Development Without Drugs Using PostgreSQL, Nginx and c2h5oh

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The talk explains using the c2h5oh Nginx extension together with PostgreSQL to build web applications without traditional language frameworks (PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, etc.). It describes how c2h5oh lets Nginx directly host high-performance web application logic while leveraging PostgreSQL as the application server.

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1. 0:00Minimalist backend intro
2. 2:57Traditional frameworks problems
3. 4:00PostgreSQL and c2h5oh
4. 6:29How c2h5oh works
5. 8:16Configuring c2h5oh
6. 10:04Business logic implementation
7. 11:07HTTP headers and cookies
8. 12:14File uploads in production
9. 13:40Emails and queues
10. 14:48User authorization
11. 15:52Testing and debugging
12. 17:17Challenges and limits
13. 18:40Future improvements
14. 19:47Q&A

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