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"Heroku is useful for prototyping, not scale" Can you clarify more on this.
by whack 10y ago
"Heroku is useful for prototyping, not scale"
Can you clarify more on this.
- scrollaway 10y agoYou can't easily scale with Heroku. Scaling, almost by its very nature, requires tight control over your infrastructure. When you scale, you need to make your infrastructure fit your app. Not the other way around.
- MattRogish 10y agoMy quote is "everyone leaves Heroku eventually". Either you hit something that Heroku won't let you do (because of their tightly bound model) or you are burning tens of thousands a month on what would cost 20% on AWS/GKE, and you do it for cost savings (people are nontrivially expensive, of course)/ownership. Everyone leaves Heroku eventually. :D
- elsurudo 10y agoMost sites never hit a scale big enough that they would need to leave