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What are the limitations to heroku that people are going to Fly for? Maybe there's a standard article that would be useful to read about it?
by richardhod 4y ago
What are the limitations to heroku that people are going to Fly for? Maybe there's a standard article that would be useful to read about it?
- zamnos 4y agoIt's more about Heroku dropping free and low-cost plans, which is them demonstrating that they don't currently care about three low end of the market, more than any specfic feature.
- doodlesdev 4y agoAlso the absolute disaster with security they had just before dropping free tiers, and the awful response which took months to even acknowledge some kinds of data (such as pipeline keys) where affected. [0] [0]: https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-user-tokens/ https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u...
- mcintyre1994 4y agoThis is an old doc from fly so I’m not sure how much of it is still accurate, but it talks about some of the stuff Heroku didn’t have that they have: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app/ https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app/ > There's no support for a single dedicated IP address for your application. With Heroku, your application's CPU resources are mostly located in one datacenter. Heroku doesn't support HTTP2 or Brotli compression and it doesn't do Edge TLS termination. And it doesn't run your applications on dedicated MicroVMs. These are all things that Fly's Global Application Platform does. The other comment that mentions Heroku dropping low cost plans is the reason for the explosion in growth as I understand it though.
- simonw 4y agoPeople don't trust it any more, because Salesforce have been under-investing in it for years and recently rug-pulled on everyone who had ever used the free tier (after providing that free tier for 15 years already - long enough for people to reasonably expect it to continue).