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An Update on Heroku

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Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by geoffharcourt »

decidertm wrote: post #82

Disclaimer: Founder of northflank.com here so very clearly biased. But if you’re looking for an alternative, reach out. If not, all good. Heroku pioneered what a PaaS could be, alongside Cloud Foundry and others, so I’m genuinely sad to see it go down like this. We built Northflank because we saw enterprises wanting to deploy workloads in their own VPC with Heroku-level simplicity. Over the past 5 years, our mission…

We've been very happy with Northflank's blend of ease-of-use with configurability when you want it. (We're running BYOC AWS.) Running several workloads and it's the best preview-environment-per-PR setup I've encountered across PaaS options.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by esfandia »

ned wrote: post #347
nathanappere wrote: post #274

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But their offering is "frontend oriented", what you describe doesn't work for django / laravel / rails / etc, no ?

Have a look at Scalingo, it's a good mix of simplicity and maturity. https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...

This looks nice! Wish they had a no-credit-card-required version for educational purposes. For the course I teach we use Spring Boot, and life was good with Heroku till they discontinued the no-credit-card version, and then the only choice we had (with support for Spring Boot) was to move over to Azure, which works but is a bit overkill and complicated for our purposes. I guess we could just use Docker and then many more platform would become available, but I'd rather not add one more step to the pipeline if possible.

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Post by whitepoplar »

asenchi wrote: post #336
whitepoplar wrote: post #306

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Tell us more about some of these ideas and approaches that changed you as an engineer! We'd love to hear!

Well many of them you may know in that they made their way into so many systems (though arguably without the refined UX of Heroku) but the two that come up the most and I am teaching others: * The simpler the interface for the user, the more decisions you can make behind the scenes. A good example here is "git push heroku". Not only is that something every user (bot or human) can run, it is also easy to script, prote…

Thank you so much for this!

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by ktaraszk »

We built miget.com specifically for cases like this. Free tier (no card required) with 256MB RAM should handle Spring Boot apps fine for teaching purposes. It's much simpler than Azure but still supports any JVM app. If your students need more resources later, hobby plans start at $5/mo. Happy to help get your course set up if you want to try it out.

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Post by ragall »

airstrike wrote: post #362
ragall wrote: post #356

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Isn't that how things should be ?

From a consumer's standpoint, why would I choose that?

It's a natural law to pay based on what you consume. Whenever that isn't required, you're typically being subsidized in a form or another, but don't be surprised when it goes away.
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