Tag: Heroku

  • The curse of enterprise maturity

    Enterprises have a habit of “professionalizing” consumer tech by adding control – security, compliance, cost management, approved architectures. All reasonable. And often exactly what kills the thing. Heroku and early cloud worked because they removed friction: no tickets, no permission, no approved stack. Developers could move fast, make local tradeoffs, and live with the consequences.…

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  • Heroku brings app development to the AI era – One day I hope people stop focusing on build containers, and start focusing on to build apps.

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  • Revisiting the clouds – “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress” //…

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  • Heroku’s Strategic Refresh Signals Renewed Investment from Salesforce – Overview of “the new” Heroku, plus risks.

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  • How Heroku Is Positioned To Help Ops Engineers in the GenAI Era – “We decided that the best thing for us strategically was to use Kubernetes underneath the covers, essentially to replace a lot of the code that we have been using to do the same thing. That’s a big migration effort for us. There’s…

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  • Link: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine

    Sure you can do a lot of things with Kubernetes. It’s great, but Cloud Foundry is designed to make “Happy developers,” as Comcast open-source senior director Nithya Ruff put it at the Cloud Foundry Summit. Cloud Foundry’s audience, as Karl Isenberg, one of its developers, explained on StackOverflow, is “enterprise application devs who want to…

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  • New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories

    New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories

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  • Press Pass: PaaS in 2014 (Pun!)

    Paul Krill asked a few questions about the future of PaaS last month for an omnibus appdev article of his (it’s a nice round up!). Here’s the only slightly edited full reply I sent him: Q: Does 451 Group see 2013 as a banner year for PaaS? If so, why? PaaS has always had the…

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