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This is about to be us with Heroku. Feels like software sales has just gotten worse for years now.
by leetrout 3y ago
This is about to be us with Heroku.
Feels like software sales has just gotten worse for years now.
- calciphus 3y agoJust Salesforce.
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- CSMastermind 3y agoHeroku is one of those things that if someone tells me their still on it without a plan to migrate I question the executive leadership at their company. Shade of its former self, expensive, and there are plenty of better options. Really seems like the company is in zombie mode until it's eventual slow demise.
- plufz 3y agoI haven’t used Heroku in a long time but I really liked the feeling of starting up a database and a container for the app with two clicks. Which are the main alternatives in that space today?
- bantunes 3y agoFly.io maybe?
- mmaia 3y agoThe best alternative I found is render.com It has this feeling of "just works", and documentation is pretty good.
- realusername 3y agoI just use Dokku on a VPS and it works fine. Sure it might not scale but Heroku didn't either.
- PanMan 3y agoI agree.. but I'm surprised how little Heroku alternatives have popped up yet.. There is new contestants, mostly focussed on more global deploys, but no "Heroku but maintained" that I know of.. yet.
- MobileVet 3y agoWe did a bake off 18 months ago and identified ~5 similar platforms at the time. Fly.io and Render were 2 of them. We chose Render and have been happy with things just chugging along as they were on Heroku. Their runtime seems to take up quite a bit more RAM, but the IAC is a great addition resulting in 100% consistent environments.
- infecto 3y agoI am not surprised. There are a handful of competitors but I believe the ship has sailed. I am a complete AWS dunce but it's too easy for me to spin up an ECS with spot machines and run my python app on it. When Heroku hit the scene and for many years, there was no easy alternative. You had to go and provision your own machines to then setup.
- DanielHB 3y agoIs it just me or ECS is relatively complicated? I mean, it is no k8, but still you need to set up a lot of stuff to get it to work.
- dkersten 3y agoI actually gave up on AWS forever when trying to use ECS. It was incredibly complex and it kept failing to deploy, but cloudeatch only contained log entries for it about 20% of the time. All I could do was click redeploy over and over — sometimes there were logs, usually not. And they charged me for every single deploy. After a day and a $100 bill later, I gave up and used DigitalOcean’s hosted docker instead. I had it up she’d rubbing in under ten minutes and no bill other than the actual usage costs. Now I avoid AWS as much as I can. Of course my employers tend to be on AWS so sadly I can’t completely avoid it, but I do my best and would never recommend it anymore.
- te_chris 3y agoI'm working with a company who are very happy on it currently. It still works really well for them, they're ok with the cost relative to the rest of their costs.
- swat535 3y agoWhat better alternatives are there? I saw Fly.io and it doesn't even offer a managed database, not to mention the fact that they have had serious reliability issues. Heroku is pretty battle tested and mature at this point, though the feature development has stopped, I don't doubt Salesforce is now going to use it simply as a the "cloud" offering for their other products..
- MobileVet 3y agoI would encourage you to find the exit ASAP from Heroku… we saw continual degradation of service and uptime during our last 2 years there.