Managed postgres is nice since tuning PG, and setting up WAL replication (check out wal-e, github.com/wal-e/wal-e) takes quite a bit of work. We did this in-house at my first startup, and while it worked it took up way to much time to justify the cost savings. Gitlab is a nice example of running it yourself gone wrong. They wrote an awesome transparent blogpost about it though. about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmo...
I've used RDS in the past, never used the google one, how do you like it so far?
Man, amazing answer. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate the help. I’m self taught (going on year 3) and never really had anyone to bounce ideas off. Dev.to just became my favorite place :) Postgres it is! ... I’m a huge fan of Google Firebase real time database. I learned backend processes, data structure, and authentication through it which gave me so much confidence when I started out. Now I can setup something so quick using it, I use it a ton at work mainly for internal projects. It’s a great product with great developer advocates and great docs ... thanks again !
Managed postgres is nice since tuning PG, and setting up WAL replication (check out wal-e, github.com/wal-e/wal-e) takes quite a bit of work. We did this in-house at my first startup, and while it worked it took up way to much time to justify the cost savings. Gitlab is a nice example of running it yourself gone wrong. They wrote an awesome transparent blogpost about it though. about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmo...
I've used RDS in the past, never used the google one, how do you like it so far?
Man, amazing answer. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate the help. I’m self taught (going on year 3) and never really had anyone to bounce ideas off. Dev.to just became my favorite place :) Postgres it is! ... I’m a huge fan of Google Firebase real time database. I learned backend processes, data structure, and authentication through it which gave me so much confidence when I started out. Now I can setup something so quick using it, I use it a ton at work mainly for internal projects. It’s a great product with great developer advocates and great docs ... thanks again !
Firebase is pretty cool, it's also price super competitively because Google knows you end up buying more stuff from them