It’s well written and interesting, no issues at all imo. Thanks for calling it out; no problem with that. Some people conflate working for a competing tech with bias, and while there could be some, the important thing is to mitigate.

As a contrary example, there’s another Heroku story on the front page right now that’s not interesting or thoughtful at all and is just marketing copy for what they’re selling.

It's a great practice, if there's one nit - it's probably better to put things like that closer to the beginning of the piece so people are less inclined to fish it out of the bottom and use it for messageboard battle.

It's great you disclosed this information, and you wrote an excellent article imo.

I hope it's fair to say that you work for a direct competitor to Heroku, and that the intention of the article is to share how you've learned from the parts of Heroku that people loved and are working to build on these ideas in the work you're doing (which is great!). I'd prefer knowing that the article is written by a competitor at the start versus casually towards the end.

I hope I didn't offend you by my comment! :)