A Database You Own: Postgres with CloudNativePG

Every platform needs a database, and for most of what you build it should be PostgreSQL. The managed versions, RDS and Cloud SQL and the rest, are convenient, and they bill you for that convenience while tying your data to one provider&rsquo;s backup format and failover behavior. I can run it on the storage I just set up instead: a highly available Postgres that fails over on its own, backs itself…