[cmelbye]

They actually have a very impressive dedicated database service: https://postgres.heroku.com/

It supports scaling vertically by throwing in more cache, faster CPU, etc. Once you outgrow that, it supports horizontal scaling by replicating to read-only slaves.

[malyk]

I'm aware as we are running on heroku here, but it gets expensive quick and your options are more limited than if you roll your own. Then again, that goes for the whole platform.

[cmelbye]

I don't see how that has anything to do with the statement that I was referring to: "[their database services] don't seem reliable or scalable."