With Heroku Postgres, most of the pain of administering a database has been automated, giving us more time to focus on building and growing our applications. Security, health checks, scaling, backup, and recovery have all been simplified for us.
Your database is one of the most crucial pieces of your application's infrastructure. Its performance and security are of top priority when running a production-level application. In this chapter, you will be introduced to using Postgres the Heroku way. You'll start by learning how to select the correct database plan for your application. Once you have your database, you'll learn how to administer it, manage backups, and monitor performance, all via the Heroku CLI.