The first blog post I ever wrote that made the front page of Hacker News was called "Docker is the Heroku Killer". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249

The first blog post I ever wrote that made the front page of Hacker News was called "Docker is the Heroku Killer". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249 Let me be real clear here...only Heroku will ever beat Heroku. Docker has enabled a lot of other great options that are all modeled after the experience that Heroku has created...but ultimately people keep looking to Heroku because they are the gold standard. Better is a series of tradeoffs. Heroku has been refining the tradeoffs to using their platform for a decade. You may create tradeoffs that work better for a use case that you want to enable, but ultimately you're going to have to convince people that your set of tradeoffs has made things "better".