It's kind of sad that Heroku has been left to die a slow death. What it brought to the industry was so far ahead of it's time in setting up easy yet powerful deployments and infrastructure.
Sure, it was never cost effective at scale, but that wasn't the point. The product has been, and continues to be, very inspirational from a customer UX standpoint. I say this as someone that works in deployment and infrastructure tooling. No matter how many "next gen" deployment tools we build to take advantage of the most sophisticated deployment techniques, the pure simplicity and elegance of Heroku was something to behold.
While it's sad that Heroku seems to be on it's way out, it has undoubtedly moved the industry forward and there are a number of compelling options to replace it and this point. Excited to see where the industry moves from here.
Sure, it was never cost effective at scale, but that wasn't the point. The product has been, and continues to be, very inspirational from a customer UX standpoint. I say this as someone that works in deployment and infrastructure tooling. No matter how many "next gen" deployment tools we build to take advantage of the most sophisticated deployment techniques, the pure simplicity and elegance of Heroku was something to behold.
While it's sad that Heroku seems to be on it's way out, it has undoubtedly moved the industry forward and there are a number of compelling options to replace it and this point. Excited to see where the industry moves from here.