[decidertm]

Disclaimer: Founder of northflank.com here so very clearly biased. But if you’re looking for an alternative, reach out. If not, all good.

Heroku pioneered what a PaaS could be, alongside Cloud Foundry and others, so I’m genuinely sad to see it go down like this.

We built Northflank because we saw enterprises wanting to deploy workloads in their own VPC with Heroku-level simplicity. Over the past 5 years, our mission has been solving the graduation problem where companies outgrow their PaaS and have to eventually migrate.

Northflank runs in your VPC (AWS/GCP/Azure/OCI) with the same git-push experience. We have customers ranging from small startups to governments and public companies who would've otherwise built their own internal developer platform. They either use Northflank as-is in their own cloud or use our API to build their IDP on top of it.

Most common use cases are preview environments and production workloads. Happy to answer questions and throw in some credits if you're evaluating alternatives.

[geoffharcourt]

We've been very happy with Northflank's blend of ease-of-use with configurability when you want it. (We're running BYOC AWS.) Running several workloads and it's the best preview-environment-per-PR setup I've encountered across PaaS options.

[almost]

I've been incredibly happy with Northflank since moving over a few years ago after Heroku got unreliable. Felt like an upgrade from Heroku and the support and reliability have been great.

[ezekg]

Do you have any public docs on how y'all migrate customers out of Heroku Postgres without downtime?

Seems to be the sticking point for a lot of people, myself included.

[decidertm]

hey!

northflank supports the same buildpacks that you run on Heroku, so it should be fairly straightforward.

we have these docs for a more detailed walkthrough:

1/ https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/migrate-from-hero...

2/ https://northflank.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-heroku-a-ste...

[scraplab]

Crunchy Bridge will help you migrate. They did a great job for us. We had a minute or so of downtime to let the read replica catch up and cut across. The team knows Heroku well, and some of them built it. (No affiliation, just a happy customer.)