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We were planning to move off anyway, but this isn't a change that would keep us. A price change to make Heroku competitive would have potentially kept us on board.
I don't think Heroku can ever be competitive by remaining a layer on top of AWS.
Really sad end for Heroku. They never could find a balance between the free tiers they offered and their overly-expensive paid tiers. Now they're entering purgatory before they are ultimately shut down for good. They had the markings of a long-lasting company in this space but corporate mismanagement has led to this drawn out death for the company. Salesforce buying the company made a few rich, but it really did turn…
What am I supposed to get inspired about on this page?
For items that look like they ?might? be exciting, they seem hidden behind vagueness: "Official Cloud Native Buildpacks for Heroku languages"
Contrast this with Render's public roadmap: https://feedback.render.com/
That has nice, plain english. I know what they're building, and I can start dreaming about what I might build with it.
> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
My proudest achievement so far is a dumb-as-rocks little Clojure program that runs on a schedule in a free Heroku dyno. It sends alerts to a Slack channel when there's updates to a Trello board we use at work. All it does is ping Trello's API, check for changes in the new state against a Postgres Heroku add-on that stores the last seen state, and then send formatted messages based on the diff to a Slack channel for me and the few coworkers of mine who pay attention to it. It starts up hourly in a Heroku free dyno, runs for six or seven seconds (JVM lol) and then goes back to sleep. But I'm super proud of it because it's actually useful and I made it myself instead of relying on Zapier or IFTTT or something like that. It sparks joy for me every time I see that it ran correctly.
Now I'll have to find somewhere else to host the little thing, I reckon.
> If you want a Heroku trial, please contact your account executive
Uhh. What
I never ever would have given Heroku a try if it hadn't been a free place to spin up toy projects. I definitely did not have an "account executive".
There's some vague language in here about people abusing the free plans for malicious purposes, but other, much smaller providers don't seem to have that problem. It sounds to me like they've just decided to abdicate the low-end market and go full enterprise, and are trying to hand-wave a justification.
RIP Heroku
Why did Salesforce buy Heroku if they're just going to sort of wind it down?
Salesforce bought Heroku more than a decade ago. Company strategies change.
This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world. It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and to…
It would be a poor business decision to exclude boot camp students from the upcoming student plan(s). That obviously doesn’t cover all types of learning/getting started though. I too mourn the loss of free, but also think it is the right decision for the times.
Maybe I'm over skeptical here, but I don't see this being an easy thing for a bootcamp study to acquire or deal with.