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sebiw | 25 days ago

> helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way

> Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers

Seems contradictory or I just don't understand how they do product management.

My opinion: Heroku had its time but then stagnated heavily in keeping up with what was going on around it. With the rise of Container as a Service platforms there now were a multitude of more cost-efficient and flexible alternatives which were comparable to the service Heroku offered.

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sc68cal|25 days ago

It's such a shame, because they had one of the best services out there. Being able to push via Git and end up with a running deployment was a killer feature. It may not have been the first (Elastic Beanstalk was way older but when it first came out it was Java only iirc, ick) but it was incredibly popular.

Seeing them now chasing AI as a "me too" after being acquired by Salesforce just shows that huge companies will acquire something then sit on it for years and let it rot.

sebiw|25 days ago

Yup, their Git Push Deployment was really a killer concept and a huge gateway for people just writing good apps not needing to care about infra and still being able to get a production-ready setup.

nightpool|25 days ago

Translation: We're going to reassign the engineers into Salesforce AI.

loloquwowndueo|25 days ago

I thought if you were all in on AI you wouldn’t need engineers - just swarms of agents doing everything. :)

sebiw|25 days ago

Huh, so that's what they mean when using the word "we". "We" is not Heroku, it's Salesforce.