https://hackingandslacking.com/mysql-google-cloud-and-a-rest-api-that-generates-itself-9872fc9dc84f > It wasn’t too long ago that I haphazardly forced us down a journey of exploring Google Cloud’s cloud SQL service. The focus of this exploration was Google’s accompanying REST API for all of its cloud SQL instances. That API turned out to be a relatively disappointing administrative API which did little to extend the features you’d expect from the CLI or console. > You see, I’ve had a dream stuck in my head for a while now. Like most of my utopian dreams, this dream is related to data, or more specifically simplifying the manner in which we interact with it. For industry synonymous with AI and automation, many of our very own tools (including ETL tools) involve way too much manual effort in my opinion. That’s right: I’m talking about the aspiration to Slack while we Hack.