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Quickly developing REST APIs with PostgREST

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Date Published
Author
Jonatas "jojo" Baldin
Word Count
1,637
Language
English
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Summary

PostgREST is a tool that generates a RESTful API directly from your PostgreSQL data model, removing the need to write your own interface. It can be used with Aiven for PostgreSQL as a database layer and a dataset from Kaggle. The process involves setting up a PostgreSQL service on Aiven, importing data into PostgreSQL, configuring the PostgreSQL, running PostgREST, exploring the RESTful API, and learning about next steps. This tool is useful for creating a RESTful API without needing to code in a high-level programming language or use a web framework.