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Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

N_Lens wrote: post #6

What a weird article that's microanalysing language in Heroku's blog posts. I mean times are such that pivot-churn is becoming business as usual for most outfits these days so I wouldn't put any stock on C-Suite verbiage.

It's an ad for the author's service, that's how all of these engineering blogs generally are.

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

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Post by frollogaston »

nathanappere wrote: post #27
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.

Yep, even in the things that tried to copy Heroku

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

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Post by anonyfox »

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.

on the other hand modern tech stacks can process insane amounts of req/s for typical websites/services in a single shared vserver core. not your 2010 ruby snoozefest anymore. plus I can't even remember when a few decade old droplets needed anything from me and still host some things just fine with zero issues or friction or nagging at all. DO is the number one pick for me in 2026 still when the problem fits a droplet style deployment, full stop.

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

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Post by cestith »

I understand Judoscale is a customer with apprehensions and is asking for clarity. That will definitely raise anxiety.

However, Heroku said they were changing focus. It’s entirely possible to change focus away from something and still do some of it. A focus on things other than new features doesn’t mean, necessarily, no new features at all. Heroku could probably save their customers and partners a lot of anxiety by being clearer and more explicit what they mean.

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