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How does Heroku and these app hosting services handle updates to the underlying OS and other dependencies? Do they only patch non-breaking updates? Or are you
by throw49477721 6y ago
How does Heroku and these app hosting services handle updates to the underlying OS and other dependencies?
Do they only patch non-breaking updates? Or are you on their schedule to ensure your app will run on the latest version?
- user5994461 6y agoWho cares? The point is that it's their problem, you don't need to think about it, it's done for you. =) In practice your application restarts at least once a week. It's transparent because a new instance is started first and takes over. The provider can move applications around to add/drain servers and perform maintenance.
- tomwojcik 6y agoAFAIK Dyno is alive for 24 hours or less +-1h, not a week.
- rsanek 6y agoYou are indeed "on their schedule" -- see eg https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1603 https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1603. But that's the trade-off you deal with, so that you don't have to manage all this stuff yourself.