Hosted ElectricSQL with support for branches/previews 🚀

[lirbank]

@KyleAMathews mentioned on Discord that you are planning a hosted ElectricSQL service. I'd love that, would much rather have you host it than have to run my own infra.

My feature request is:

It would be wonderful if your hosted service was compatible with Vercel Previews and Neon Branches (they work so well together).

Also, similar to how Neon has a dev branch, so I don't have to stand up a local Postgres if I don't want to, is super nice. It makes it so easy for a new dev to onboard when they don't have to get Docker running and stuff. Each dev can later stand up their own Docker if they want to be agnostic to internet outages or need faster connectivity to the db. If the ElectricSQL service offered the same = Epic!

[lirbank]

FYI I don't use Vercel Postgres (which is built on Neon) coz they don't support branches yet. But using Neon(DB)+Vercel(App hosting) works really well.

[KyleAMathews]

For sure! We're adding multi-tenant support (#1591) & you'll be able to add as many backend dbs as you'd like to Electric Cloud.

[thruflo]

Moved to discussion so others interested in the feature can upvote / add to discussion.

Fwiw, I think there is more to branching integration than just registering a new backend DB. But multi-tenant is definitely a first step and it may depend how easy / fast it is to programmatically add new backend PGs.