Relational databases such as Postgres are often used for critical workloads, such as user account data. To run a relational database service in the cloud requires a cloud provider to set up a highly durable, highly available system.

Jon Daniel is an infrastructure engineer at Heroku. Jon joins the show to describe the engineering and operations required to build a managed relational database service. Full disclosure: Heroku is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily.

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