Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On? • Hacker News Board

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by kaoD » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 8:36 AM UTC

elwray wrote: post #14

I think its impossible for the Herokus and the digital oceans of the world to survive in the cloud world. They might be able to create better experience for customers but noone can match the networking that AWS, GCP and Azure can provide. Low latency will always win over better developer experience.

DigitalOcean is the Arduino of cloud.

True, it can't compete with AWS/GCP/Azure if you're large scale. But most of us are not large scale, we just need a no frills experience instead of dealing with 27 nested panels just to spin up a VM.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by hanspagel » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC

msteffen wrote: post #2

Five bucks it’s this: Management: “we’re going into maintenance mode” Devs: “You mean we get to work on whatever we want?!”

100% management is gone, engineers took over

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by elAhmo » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

I don't understand who is still using Heroku today.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by collimarco » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

I have built Cuber (https://github.com/cuber-cloud/cuber-gem) a few years ago as a replacement for Heroku and now we use it to deploy all our Rails applications on DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Extremely lower cost, better performance, less bugs, better support...

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by bovermyer » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 9:37 AM UTC

I long ago switched to Fly.io. It feels like the old days of Heroku.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by dizhn » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:07 AM UTC

They might be dumping the last of the stuff that was already in the pipeline.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by nathanappere » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC

elAhmo wrote: post #23

I don't understand who is still using Heroku today.

The experience of "you push, provision databases & dependencies in 3 clicks, and it just works" is sadly still unmatched.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by interstice » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:52 AM UTC

petcat wrote: post #20

interstice wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never found cloud anything to beat the speed (and price) of a well placed server. DO has always been a bit rich for my blood though, and even a low cost hetzner VPS has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago. I could be wrong there though I usually use Vultr for their SYD region.

> has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago Less cores but probably 5x more performance per core now.

This is more helpful when software doesn't just pin the first 4 available cores at 100% to get things done.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by anonzzzies » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

collimarco wrote: post #24

I have built Cuber ( https://github.com/cuber-cloud/cuber-gem ) a few years ago as a replacement for Heroku and now we use it to deploy all our Rails applications on DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Extremely lower cost, better performance, less bugs, better support...

Is Heroku that expensive these days? What are extremely lower costs? In my experience DO is hella expensive.

Re: Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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Post by SpaceNugget » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 11:16 AM UTC

interstice wrote: post #28

petcat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago Less cores but probably 5x more performance per core now.

This is more helpful when software doesn't just pin the first 4 available cores at 100% to get things done.

How? If each core is 5x faster then it's done 5x sooner. I can't think of a use case for a cheap vps where 5x faster per core cpus are not helpful.