Gel Joins Vercel
9 days ago
- #Python
- #Database
- #Startup
- Gel Data Inc. is shutting down and the team is joining Vercel to focus on building the best Python cloud.
- Gel Cloud will stop accepting new registrations and will be fully shut down by January 31 next year, but remains open-source on GitHub.
- The team has provided migration guides for users to transition to managed Postgres or self-hosted setups.
- Gel's contributions to Python include async/await in CPython, asyncio, uvloop, asyncpg, and more.
- Vercel's investment in Python aims to replicate their success with JavaScript, with the team continuing to contribute to open-source projects.
- Gel's innovative ideas include declarative schema management, a stateless and faster network protocol, and a unique data model introducing 'links'.
- EdgeQL, Gel's query language, combines features of SQL and GraphQL but faces challenges due to its novelty.
- The team reflects on challenges like creating a new category, overextending resources, and the difficulty of boiling the ocean.
- A formal paper on Gel's data model and query language has been written to share insights with the broader community.