Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback

Post by nicoburns » Sat, May 07, 2022, 9:53 PM UTC

SonOfLilit wrote: post #107

pdwittig wrote: post #68

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I was a long time Heroku user/lover (~10 years) for both personal and company projects. I've recently moved to Render[1], and so far it's been great. I haven't been using them long enough to put it through it's paces, but I'd certainly say it's worth a look. Other alternatives I've heard good things about are Fly.io[2] and Porter[3]. [1] - https://render.com/ [2] - https://fly.io/ [3] - https://porter.run/

Checked out render.com in the context of side projects that I want on the air but don't expect anyone to ever use (I have so many on heroku, who got rewarded for their generosity with many thousands of dollars of business from me), which means I'm willing to pay a few dollars but not to pay per-app. Looks great except that they delete your free databases after 90 days, making it completely useless for this use case.…

Post by Mandatum » Mon, May 09, 2022, 12:08 AM UTC

throwawa3238273 wrote: post #66

neximo64 wrote: post #55

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The amount of Salesforce fluff in the post is quite palpable. There is a clear lack of control with the leaders in Heroku judging off this post because of the salesforce transition. This project Periwinkle sounds awful. Basically thats the end of using Heroku for us. If it remains like this its something to judge from.

There really aren't any Heroku leaders anymore. I think anyone director level or higher is Salesforce—not Heroku. It's worth mentioning that this isn't a result of Salesforce acquiring Heroku. That happened 12 years ago when Heroku was next to nothing. Salesforce gets credit for investing in and making Heroku. Why they ultimately have decided to give up on it I have no idea. I hear it's because salespeople had a hard…

Post by Mandatum » Mon, May 09, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

shakna wrote: post #116

remram wrote: post #94

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Where do I find those notifications? I only got a single email, stating I should "reset my user password as mentioned in our previous notification". Nothing prior, nothing since, and their password reset form shows nothing but "Internal Server Error". I've been getting some details from HN but I think I'm missing a lot of the picture since they obviously don't send everyone every email.

I have 21 emails from them with the subject "[Issue] Heroku Security Notification", since this started.

Post by danjac » Mon, May 09, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

SonOfLilit wrote: post #107

pdwittig wrote: post #68

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I was a long time Heroku user/lover (~10 years) for both personal and company projects. I've recently moved to Render[1], and so far it's been great. I haven't been using them long enough to put it through it's paces, but I'd certainly say it's worth a look. Other alternatives I've heard good things about are Fly.io[2] and Porter[3]. [1] - https://render.com/ [2] - https://fly.io/ [3] - https://porter.run/

Checked out render.com in the context of side projects that I want on the air but don't expect anyone to ever use (I have so many on heroku, who got rewarded for their generosity with many thousands of dollars of business from me), which means I'm willing to pay a few dollars but not to pay per-app. Looks great except that they delete your free databases after 90 days, making it completely useless for this use case.…

Post by rhizome » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:53 AM UTC

Mandatum wrote: post #144

hthrowaway3 wrote: post #106

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It's on ice. As you say it's also not the first time they've attempted something like this. Eventually they'll get there, but customers should know that's the direction. They'll be users of "Compute Cloud" writing APEX instead of Procfiles someday.

Remember when Salesforce was moving off of Oracle within 2 years? A decade ago..