This blog post is peak comedy. Heroku is half abandoned, I expected the post to be something like "we're sunsetting Heroku" before clicking and what we get instead is about AI.
They are discontinuing it, you were right.
An Update on Heroku
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#42Not at all surprising, but a real shame. Nothing that I know of has come close to the ease of the "Deploy to Heroku" button.
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#43It's nice that they would admit this, but it seems a little strange that they would. Why not just never add new features and let people figure it out on their own? A big statement like this seems more like implicitly killing the platform, which is what they say they aren't doing.
I guess the best way to interpret this is that they are killing the platform over time but they don't want to kill it right now since money is still coming in and it would make too many customers mad.
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#44Sad day. Was such an amazing product and gave a start to so many companies back then.
It was the easiest place to host my Rails apps back in the day.
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#45The corporate speak is crazy. I think the update boils down to this sentence:
> Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers
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#46chatgpt translation: Heroku isn’t shutting down, but they’re basically done building new stuff.
For those who want to move and potentially save $ in process, here is a nice cost comparison: https://infraslash.com/costs/
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#48This is a sad day. I used heroku for years (in the past).
A few alternatives to consider
- https://render.com/ - this is very close to heroku
- https://coolify.io/ - My personal favorite. It's slightly more involved, but you can run it on any hardware like hetzner and save a boatload.
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#49So they are going into maintenance mode?
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#50"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 is used in Engineering to mean that it's now post-GA and there is no further development. The platform is not End of Life but there are no more features planned.