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I have no insider knowledge, but a look thought their changelog[1] is not exactly inspiring, especially if you consider that Heroku doesn't support things like HTTP2.[2] There are almost no real changes beyond updates to languages and the occasional (rare) minor change to the platform, which is not a sign of a healthy actively supported service.

[1]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog

[2]: https://help.heroku.com/JAOCNZ25/does-heroku-have-plans-to-s...

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At work, we spend a LOT of money with heroku every month. We really wanted to use Protobuffers (please let's not discuss that ;) ), which require HTTP 2 for the streaming stuff. So we talked with them and were like "heyy, we need this" and while they didn't explicitly say they weren't going to support it, the response basically boiled down to "yeah, i wouldn't be holding your breath" ;)

You can use protobuff without gRPC if that helps for your use case. Twitch has open sourced their HTTP1 protobuff client/server library: https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

We added support for HTTP2, GRPC and streaming at Northflank recently. Could be a good choice for your team. Here is the changelog https://northflank.com/changelog/introducing-http-2-and-grpc...

As a Heroku customer, I'd appreciate a migration guide from Heroku to Northflank in your docs. What are the equivalent services (nodejs dynos, worker, scheduler, postgres, papertrail) and what are the steps to move. Thanks

Does Salesforce really have any motivation to update the cheaper Heroku instead of direct people toward their more expensive options?

But those "more expensive options" are completely different services, right? This is like "why should Lenovo market monitors when they're also selling their more expensive laptops?"

In my experience developing salesforce stuff in the past, forcing people into the wrong services while charging a fortune for the headache and lockin is their entire business model.

There is nothing in common with SFDC and Heroku.

Even when making a custom app with Salesforce Data, you are severely constricted wrt the amount of apex code and the data speed.

curl -i https://api.heroku.com/ | grep 'HTTP/2'

That's just the API, not the service for your apps.

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