29.4 Adding Backing Services
Our website is now running and available publicly, but we’re missing many of the key features we need for it. Referred to as backing services, or colloquially as add-ons, these tools are typically run by other companies on the Heroku platform. This means, however, that we will be paying these companies to manage the services we sign up for. As long as we’re incurring a cost that is less than what it costs to dedicate an engineer or a team to the task of managing the services, then we are benefitting from the service. For a startup or a small website, the cost is typically well worth it.
In the next three subsections we do the following:
1. Add logging to our production site
2. Enable transactional emails
3. Enable ...
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