Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

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.

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

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Post by 0xc133 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

sghiassy wrote: post #4

Heroku has been going downhill ever since Salesforce bought them.

Strong disagree. They didn’t even invent buildpacks until 2011, the year after the acquisition.

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

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Post by 9dev » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:39 AM UTC

sghiassy wrote: post #4

Heroku has been going downhill ever since Salesforce bought them.

It’s just in coma, slowly dying away on a respirator. Some relatives irrationally keep paying the hospital to keep the patient alive, but the doctors just wait until they can finally pull the plugs and use the bed for someone with actual chances of survival.

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

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Post by dangus » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:40 AM UTC

The blog author isn’t understanding it but it’s quite simple: the product only matters in the context of large enterprise customers.

The large customers still get what they want as long as the ask isn’t too big and that’s why you see new features even though the product is in maintenance mode.

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

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

The related discussion on one of the mentioned blog posts:

An update of Heroku

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913903