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> The downfall started before Salesforce Salesforce purchased heroku in Dec 2010. This was before, for instance, ruby creator Matz was an employee (he no longe
by jrochkind1 4y ago
> The downfall started before Salesforce
Salesforce purchased heroku in Dec 2010. This was before, for instance, ruby creator Matz was an employee (he no longer is). Heroku had only existed for about 2 years when salesforce bought it. I think there are some other features we think of as core to heroku that actually weren't deployed until after the salesforce purchase.
I think a lot of people remember it this way, but I think they are wrong and heroku's golden age actually came a couple years after the salesforce acquisition.
- joshstrange 4y agoI apologize for mixing up my timelines. I guess I thought they had a longer run before SF bought them. I still believe Heroku was horribly managed under SF and they must have had at least some of that stuff in the pipeline before being bought. I always give a few years of time after acquisition before I consider something to be due to the company that bought them (and not just existing work/ideas from the previous leadership). With a lot of companies like it it feels like the passion/energy just dies after acquisition (not immediately but in a relatively short period of time), which feels like what happened with Heroku. They went from being an HN darling to hearing next to nothing about them until their security issues earlier this year.