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An Update on Heroku

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Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #8

> helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way > Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers Seems contradictory or I just don't understand how they do product management. My opinion: Heroku had its time but then stagnated heavily in keeping up with what was going on around it. With the rise of Container as a Service platforms there now were a mult…

Translation: We're going to reassign the engineers into Salesforce AI.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #8

> helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way > Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers Seems contradictory or I just don't understand how they do product management. My opinion: Heroku had its time but then stagnated heavily in keeping up with what was going on around it. With the rise of Container as a Service platforms there now were a mult…

Translation: We're going to reassign the engineers into Salesforce AI.

Huh, so that's what they mean when using the word "we". "We" is not Heroku, it's Salesforce.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #2

Just about to set up a new app to deploy to Heroku, but this does not seem promising. Render seems like the next logical move, but curious where others are looking for alternatives.

Railway for backend APIs. Render for front-end apps. That's my current go-to.

Although I would consider, _when possible_, using Vercel or Netlify.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #5

"transitioning to a sustaining engineering model". I don't care what anyone says, it takes real talent to come up with lines like this.

Surely it's a typo and they meant "sustainable"?

Otherwise IMO such an odd word choice. Definition:

>> providing physical or mental strength or support

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #5

"transitioning to a sustaining engineering model". I don't care what anyone says, it takes real talent to come up with lines like this.

It's like PBS, they are going to beg for your money now with a sustaining engineering membership

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #15
post #5

"transitioning to a sustaining engineering model". I don't care what anyone says, it takes real talent to come up with lines like this.

Surely it's a typo and they meant "sustainable"? Otherwise IMO such an odd word choice. Definition: >> providing physical or mental strength or support

Sustaining as in sustaining their shareholders.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #8

> helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way > Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers Seems contradictory or I just don't understand how they do product management. My opinion: Heroku had its time but then stagnated heavily in keeping up with what was going on around it. With the rise of Container as a Service platforms there now were a mult…

It's such a shame, because they had one of the best services out there. Being able to push via Git and end up with a running deployment was a killer feature. It may not have been the first (Elastic Beanstalk was way older but when it first came out it was Java only iirc, ick) but it was incredibly popular.

Seeing them now chasing AI as a "me too" after being acquired by Salesforce just shows that huge companies will acquire something then sit on it for years and let it rot.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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post #5

"transitioning to a sustaining engineering model". I don't care what anyone says, it takes real talent to come up with lines like this.

We've been optimizing for decades to engineer the bullshit-generating super-soldiers required to craft modern PR statements.
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