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An Update on Heroku
heroku.com
"Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering"
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"emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features"
Basically Heroku is going legacy
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I don't know why, but this specifically makes me feel old.
Definitely some nostalgia for this platform!
I remember times when dev.to was hosted on heroku ) Where do you host devto these days? (if that's ok to ask :D)
Wow, that's a surprise.
I remember the first Twitter bot I wrote. I hosted it on Heroku.
Relevant post from a few days ago
Heroku Alternatives Decision Framework: What Actually Matters When Picking a PaaS
rising_segun for seenode ・ Jan 30
Note that this post is written by a Heroku alternative...
"Sustaining engineering" is such a corporate way to say "we stopped investing." The wild part is how many production apps are still running on Heroku dynos right now — this is going to force a lot of migration decisions that teams have been putting off for years. fwiw, Railway has made the migration path pretty painless if anyone's staring down that timeline.
@ben Would you say that "Heroku is going Legacy" a good or bad thing? I never use Heroku, only used Netlify and GitHub to host sites.
Well I think it will be fine for existing apps, but basically they're saying they're no longer investing in new features.
Oh ok make sense. Thanks for clarifying for me! :D
They're vague with their language, so it's hard to pin down everything, but the gist is that they're not going to be making active improvements.
Familiar pattern - smaller independent company gets acquired by big company, original founders make a nice buck, big company milks it and targets the customer base with their enterprise offers - then when the returns diminish they gradually end-of-life it ...
Not a big drama I suppose, it's just how these things go ...
Dang