Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)

This blog post is a sort of whirlwind tour of the use case and business model, as well as how I use things like Racket, PostgreSQL, and AWS — but don’t use advertising or JavaScript. A whole chain of such wrappers can be composed — using or the threading macro — to wrap the original function when we start the Racket web server:

I was skeptical about using PostgreSQL: Is it web scale? Just a quick overview of other parts:

I hope this helps give a taste of what it’s like to start a small SaaS business c. 2018 using Racket, PostgreSQL, and AWS — but without using advertising or JavaScript.

Source: www.greghendershott.com