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Shed a tear for Heroku, they made all this go away such a long time ago but ultimately squandered their innovation and the ~decade lead they had on other thinki
by benoau 2y ago
Shed a tear for Heroku, they made all this go away such a long time ago but ultimately squandered their innovation and the ~decade lead they had on other thinking in this fashion.
- the__alchemist 2y agoCould you please clarify? I haven't noticed any impact to Heroku on my web applications; it.. just works, anecdotally. They send periodic mandatory upgrade emails re database and application stack, but they have been harmless so far; going back a decade.
- benoau 2y agoThey went from leading / pioneering horizontal scalability and database deploying and scaling and orchestration to "quiet-quitting" 15 years ago and doing almost nothing ever since - today they're barely worthy of mention in any discussion on any tech that solves these problems.
- the__alchemist 2y agoWe define worth. I mention Heroku as a great way to make web applications at various scales. Reliable, and easy to use.
- nine_k 2y agoHeroku was / is like a mainframe. You get provisioning, scaling, configuration, etc all sorted out for you, as long as you pay through the nose.
- ksec 2y agoI kind of think Railway and Fly.io is taking that spirit forward? Although I would love if Salesforce would just sell Heroku to somebody else and take it forward.
- the__alchemist 2y agoSo, it's a price issue? My confusion / out-of-the-loop is thus: I hear that Heroku has gone downhill, is no longer recommended etc, yet I've noticed no degradation personally. Works well, is stable, has all the benefits I initially liked it for.
- benoau 2y agoI mean their prices have never been great, but the sadness is because they should have WON - Heroku should have been the standard for deploying and managing hosting instances and databases and stuff on any cloud.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoSalesforce is what happened to Heroku.