Any project that still fits Heroku has much cheaper options available with all the same reliability features: Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, ECS, etc (I’m naming

Any project that still fits Heroku has much cheaper options available with all the same reliability features: Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, ECS, etc (I’m naming AWS options because I’m not knowledgeable enough about other cloud providers to suggest anything else, but I know all the major players have something in this realm.) It really doesn’t take a devops engineer to run these if your app still fits on Heroku. A little bit of overhead goes into learning the service, much like you’d learn any new API or programming library.