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Ben Halpern
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Heroku is going into maintenance mode

Big news in the hosting world

"Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering"

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"emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features"

Basically Heroku is going legacy

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Amara Graham

I don't know why, but this specifically makes me feel old.

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Ben Halpern

Definitely some nostalgia for this platform!

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Anna Buianova

I remember times when dev.to was hosted on heroku ) Where do you host devto these days? (if that's ok to ask :D)

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leob

Familiar pattern - smaller independent company gets acquired by big company, original founders make a nice buck, big company milks it and targets the customer base with their enterprise offers - then when the returns diminish they gradually end-of-life it ...

Not a big drama I suppose, it's just how these things go ...

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๐Ÿ‘พ FrancisTRDev ๐Ÿ‘พ

@ben Would you say that "Heroku is going Legacy" a good or bad thing? I never use Heroku, only used Netlify and GitHub to host sites.

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Ben Halpern

Well I think it will be fine for existing apps, but basically they're saying they're no longer investing in new features.

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๐Ÿ‘พ FrancisTRDev ๐Ÿ‘พ

Oh ok make sense. Thanks for clarifying for me! :D

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Ben Halpern

They're vague with their language, so it's hard to pin down everything, but the gist is that they're not going to be making active improvements.

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mjuice

Dang