Heroku was the biggest in a long line of developer tools. The PaaS and now FaaS models are still alive and well. A lot of developers want them. I know people are hot on containers and k8s but devs, who need to focus on code and business logic, have poorer productivity when they have to shift into thinking about ops.
Heroku inspired a lot including direct competitors (like Cloud Foundry). A lot of money has been made and people jobs make easier.
On the flip side, I keep seeing businesses not wanting to invest in developer tools that make their lives easier. PaaS is one of them. Did Salesforce fail to invest in Heroku so it stagnated? How many other places is this happening? Did Heroku make enough money and that was it?
There are a lot of unknowns.
I think we need more PaaS and FaaS. Make the jobs of developers simpler (hiding the ops complexity).
Heroku was the biggest in a long line of developer tools. The PaaS and now FaaS models are still alive and well. A lot of developers want them. I know people are hot on containers and k8s but devs, who need to focus on code and business logic, have poorer productivity when they have to shift into thinking about ops.
Heroku inspired a lot including direct competitors (like Cloud Foundry). A lot of money has been made and people jobs make easier.
On the flip side, I keep seeing businesses not wanting to invest in developer tools that make their lives easier. PaaS is one of them. Did Salesforce fail to invest in Heroku so it stagnated? How many other places is this happening? Did Heroku make enough money and that was it?
There are a lot of unknowns.
I think we need more PaaS and FaaS. Make the jobs of developers simpler (hiding the ops complexity).