Heroku Postgres

What do you like best?

- setup, maintenance, and URL rotation is extremely easy

- useful tools for slow queries and monitoring

- plenty of great troubleshooting material

- works well with other heroku plugins

- backups, upgrades, and basic security are taken care of for you

What do you dislike?

- no admin access or custom postgres extensions. if you need these advanced use cases, you will want another postgres plugin.

- gets pretty expensive as you scale

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

- we wanted a database setup that worked with minimal configuration. with Heroku Postgres, we spend a lot less time on the operational parts (maintenance, resource management, etc) of the database, and a lot more on business logic and application performance. it makes our product iteration cycle significantly faster.