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Agreed. The pay off seems rather incremental but the playoffs are nuanced. A developer doesn't have to install it manually, and this is big for junior developer
by alttab 14y ago
Agreed. The pay off seems rather incremental but the playoffs are nuanced. A developer doesn't have to install it manually, and this is big for junior developers who may not have set up a sophisticated environment before. It also cuts down on set up time for new machines and new hires. Any bogus environmental issues go away and could regain 3-4 hours on day 1 getting into a new app.
Postgres performs and behaves differently too. Developers will be more conscious of vacuuming and analyzing their DBS, especially after large deletes, etc.
Overall it removes friction, regardless of how trivial, and helps commoditize the whole development and deployment cycle which is essentially herokus entire value proposition.
I say great work.
- bradfa 14y agothis is big for junior developers who may not have set up a sophisticated environment before. It also cuts down on set up time for new machines and new hires This. I'm just getting started playing with Heroku as a hobby. I've not used Postgres before, so getting things set up correctly on my dev machine was not a "install one app, go" kind of experience. I spent at least an hour reading / trying / understanding. Having something like this would have meant 1 more hour of making, rather than trying to get Postgres setup. For hobby (or any) projects, 1 extra hour doing what I want to do is a big deal. I'm only able to spend about 5 hours per week on my hobby, getting 20% of my time last week back would have been a big deal to me.