> Eventually the model providers will do it, and that's what we'll all use.

Haven't they already, to varying degrees?

For us, the reason is we're primarily a Salesforce company and rely on the Heroku Connect product to facilitate bidirectional syncing between Salesforce and PostgreSQL (which also requires Heroku PG).

One of the biggest benefits to this product -- aside from the syncing mechanism -- is a bypass of Salesforce's extremely limiting (and expensive) API limits.

Just please don't sunset Heroku Connect

Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent. It's a large part while I'm a subscriber.

I don't have a fancy workflow per se, but I have started leaning into git workspaces more which has really been a boon with Elixir (especially in large projects where compile times can be in the many tens of seconds).