Comment by jonplackett

8 months ago

Yeah they fucked Heroku hard. I used to love Heroku. Can’t imagine there’s many people still left using it now.

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Mo3  8 months ago

> Yeah they fucked Heroku hard

Surprisingly not as much as I'd thought when they took it over. They just never adjusted pricing to remain competitive. The experience is still some of the best you can get for RoR apps. But nobody in their right mind deploying a new application today would look at their insane 10 year old dyno pricing and be like - yup - reasonable

  • jrochkind1  8 months ago

    in fact, if you actually look at the historical timeline, many of the things we think of as core to developer experience only were released after salesforce acquisition.

    I think even multiple buildpacks at once only came a couple years after acquisition.

    Possibly they were in the pipeline before acquisition, sure.

    But I'd agree, heroku is still a better DX than almost any competitors, although it's features and pricing have really stagnated. So better DX as long as you don't need any features it doens't have. But it hasn't really been 'ruined' in any way, it just started appearing frozen in amber some years ago.

    The new 'fir' platform is promissing, before that I didn't really know that any actual development was taking place in heroku, but it's a big move, modernizing things and setting the stage for more. Including slightly improved resource-to-pricing options. We'll see if it all works out...

wereHamster  8 months ago

We just managed to shut down our last Heroku service a week ago. Good riddance.

  • gregsadetsky  8 months ago

    what did you migrate to?

    • wereHamster  8 months ago

      We got rid of all Rails apps (that needed a backend). We've moved our Postgres databases to Neon, and run our docker containers on Google Cloud Run (these are containers that don't need to run 24/7, we're paying just a few cents each month, also cold starts are much faster and more reliable than on Heroku).