Heroku Is Dead (And It Taught Us Everything We Know)

Heroku's story is one of the most important in modern software — and one of the least told. This video traces the full arc of the platform that invented `git push` deployments, buildpacks, and the Twelve-Factor App, from three founders in 2007 who wanted shipping code to feel like writing a haiku, through a two-hundred-million-dollar Salesforce acquisition, six years of enterprise compliance features aimed at the wrong customer, and a beautifully executed rebuild that arrived eleven years too late. What makes the story worth telling isn't the rise or the fall — it's what Heroku left behind. Its ideas didn't just survive; they won completely. The rules Adam Wiggins wrote down are in your Dockerfile. The buildpacks Heroku built for itself in 2011 became a Cloud Native Computing Foundation top-tier project. And somewhere in your organisation, a platform team is two years into building something that looks a great deal like what Heroku already finished, priced, and documented before most of them had their first job. This is that bedtime story. #Heroku #DevOps #PlatformEngineering Consider joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit/join ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 Additional Info 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➡ Transcript and commands: https://devopstoolkit.live/bedtime/heroku-is-dead-and-it-taught-us-everything-we-know 🔗 Heroku: https://heroku.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 Sponsorships 💰 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ If you are interested in sponsoring this channel, please visit https://devopstoolkit.live/sponsor for more information. Alternatively, feel free to contact me over Twitter or LinkedIn (see below). ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Contact me 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➡ BlueSky: https://vfarcic.bsky.social ➡ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🚀 Other Channels 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎤 Podcast: https://www.devopsparadox.com/ 💬 Live streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsParadox ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱ Timecodes ⏱ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Heroku 01:00 Heroku's Founding and git push heroku — The Command That Did Everything 04:55 Heroku Cedar, Buildpacks and Twelve-Factor — The Rules They Gave Away 09:48 Salesforce Acquires Heroku — "Ruby Is the Language of Cloud 2" 12:10 Heroku Enterprise, Docker and Kubernetes — Building for Procurement 16:40 Heroku Fir and Sustaining Engineering — The Right Answer, Eleven Years Late