This article doesn't really lay out what - from a customer perspective - would class heroku as a sinking ship? The DevEx is still great, the alternatives are either borderline ridiculous (K8S is a laughably complex beast in comparison), or not fully cooked yet (fly.io, render etc.) I know that it's expensive, but it's nowhere near the price of having an engineer manage cloud infrastructure full-time.
I would love Heroku to have more reasonably priced compute. I'm desperately hoping that genuine competition in this space will pressure Heroku into sorting this. But the frequent refrain recently that Heroku just doesn't match with my experience in recent years. When the alternative PaaS solutions offer a comparable postgres service, then we'll have a genuine competitor. Until then, I'm not sure I really grok the level of disdain for it that's been on HN recently.
I agree, but I no longer have confidence that salesforce will keep heroku working. Or ever add another feature again. At some point, as the world changes, a feature-freeze is actually going backwards.
But so far there's still nothing as mature and reliable as heroku, i agree. fly and render (and maybe some others) are getting closer; I just hope they get there before heroku becomes untenable, which I now expect it to.
I got the impression the OP was calling it a "sinking ship" based on the inside view of what's going on. From the customer perspective, it all still works, although the fact that it hasn't changed in 5 years, as the world has continued to, is not encouraging. But what I hear from the inside (not just from OP) is what nails it down.
I would love Heroku to have more reasonably priced compute. I'm desperately hoping that genuine competition in this space will pressure Heroku into sorting this. But the frequent refrain recently that Heroku just doesn't match with my experience in recent years. When the alternative PaaS solutions offer a comparable postgres service, then we'll have a genuine competitor. Until then, I'm not sure I really grok the level of disdain for it that's been on HN recently.