On: MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb

[Johngibb]

How does the scalability offered by Heroku compare to this? Does Heroku let you interface with RDS if you outgrow their db offerings?

[detst → Johngibb]

It's the very first item on their add-ons listing.

[davcro → Johngibb]

They do. I think Heroku is the best thing for new apps / developers. You can launch your app for free. Your app would have to be rather successful (and hopefully profitable) to outgrow their free database plan.

[trevorturk → Johngibb]

Heroku just released some major updates to their Postgres offering as well. See the blog for info: http://blog.heroku.com/