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Great. May you ellaborate on the BYO concept? How do you bring it? Or you will just ask Postgres owners to install an agent which will then connect from custom
by ahachete 7y ago
Great.
May you ellaborate on the BYO concept? How do you bring it? Or you will just ask Postgres owners to install an agent which will then connect from customers' premises to your middleware?
BTW hosting your own Postgres service is a huge project on its own. Take this into consideration.
- kiwicopple 7y agoFor the BYO - all we need is the database connection string. We will then host an elixir server + nginx. This doesn’t need any agent on the database itself. I’ll add a diagram to to website, I think I can make this a lot clearer. > hosting your own Postgres service is a huge project Yes, you’re right. We will only do it if it looks like our potential customers are leaving because they don’t know how to do it themselves. Even then, we will just wrap an existing managed service to start with. We’d like to make Postgres as simple to use as Firebase (for newbie database users)
- ahachete 7y ago> For the BYO - all we need is the database connection string. Then this means that the database should be publicly accessible. Many would not accept this from a security perspective (regardless of the use of SSL and even certificate authentication only).
- kiwicopple 7y agoWe will also provide an IP address that the user can whitelist so they don’t have to make it completely public. But I would understand if even that is not enough for some. That’s the beauty of opensource though. If we end up just building a useful product that everyone hosts themselves, I’m happy with that. Btw, these are great questions. Thanks - they will really help me to improve how I have explained it on the website