Unfinished Business with Postgres
Thank you for writing this bit of history, Craig! I have a personal half-serious theory that it was Heroku that really gave Postgres its break-through popularity. I think life is often like that: after years & years of hard work, you get just the right coincidence of external factors to let you take off. All during the 'oughts Postgres seemed like an eccentric ideological choice over MySQL, but most of us had never really tried it. With Heroku we were basically forced to use it, and suddenly we could see that all those eccentrics were right. I love Postgres and have tried to make it more & more a part of my own career. So thank you to you and the Heroku team for making such a principled and brave choice back then.