Link parkin’: Why build an HTTP client into a database? So you can ingest web data directly!
Steampipe tables can do all sorts of surprising things! Did you know, for example, that the Net plugin’s net_http_request encapsulates a full-blown HTTP client?
I don’t think it’s a “trend” but noting that in my feeds, exploiting an HTTP client mechanism inside of an SQL engine is popping up often.
Great piece by Jon Udell via his own blog.