PocketBase used in Beszel server monitoring

TIL: beszel uses PocketBase as its server backend!

Lately, I’ve been semi obsessing over PB due to its rich featureset. For a Go dev, it’s a game changer in terms of speed and ease of use.

My side projects will never amount to anything needing more than a single instance. Instead of burning a lot of my limited (2 kids) free time with boilerplate before even getting to the core logic of whatever I’m trying to build, I usually run out of steam.

PocketBase goes a long way to fixing that. It gives so much out-of-the-box. IMO its the Django of Go. Of course, unlike Laravel, Django, Ruby on Rails, it only supports SQLite but.. do you really need PG or MySql? Probably not. Just get a bigger box and vertically scale that bad boy!

So today when I found out beszel uses PB, I was kinda over the moon. This isn’t a toy its a legit useful project. Even TailScale dev rel have made a video on it.

If nothing else its made me even more adamant that PB is a underutilized tool in the Go dev’s toolkit.

I think the big reason for this is its kinda marketed as a JS dev’s tool. Effectively just a FireBase alternative - and it can be. But, its written in Go and can be extended as little or as much as you like.

Want a message queue hanging off it - Done! Want a custom API - Done! The sky is the limit. Only limitation is your imagination.

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#til #go #pocketbase