[kayo_20211030]

It was such a great product.

Yes, I know they had one truly horrible year. But, they righted the ship.

I worked for a company that ran 10bn in revenue, with thousands of users, and Heroku just hummed along. It ran our business.

The benefit to us was the lack of problems that occurred at deploy time. Heroku's orchestration of removing old dynos, adding new dynos, and their network control was spectacular. DB's were updated, or patched, without downtime. It truly was impressive.

We moved to a combination of AWS and on-prem, and the overhead of providing what Heroku previously provided is quite large.

I'll remember it fondly, and miss it a bit too.