Managed services vs. DIY
Nikolay and Michael discuss some options for hosting Postgres — what are the main reasons for going for a managed service, versus managing it in-house (DIY).
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
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Show Notes
A well as discussing pros and cons, we mentioned a LOT of different providers and tools, and a few good articles/videos too. 😅
Here are links to most of them, roughly in the order they came up:
- How Auto Trader migrated its on-prem databases to Cloud SQL
- PostgreSQL Community Panel: Upgradability
- Postgres TV Open Talks
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe
- Hannu Krosing — excellent vacuum talk
- pg_docs_bot — browser extension for getting to the current docs
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
- Heroku Postgres
- Crunchy Bridge
- Spilo: HA PostgreSQL Clusters with Docker
- Aiven for PostgreSQL
- AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
- Neon
- Yugabyte
- ScaleGrid PostgreSQL Hosting
- StackGres
- Timescale
- OrioleDB
- Citus
- Supabase
- PlanetScale
- pg_stat_kcache
- pg_wait_sampling
- EDB BigAnimal
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
With special thanks to:
- Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork