Feels damn good to be using #Heroku again. I don't give a good god damn if fly or render are cheaper. Heroku is just damn easy. #Chrysalis
DISCLAIMER: I'm super-biased. I worked there for 5 years. It was the best job of my career (while also true that the job was hard on me because #actuallyaudhd and had no idea—but then so has every "job" in my life). And I still have CRM stock from it (though the latter causes me 
at times).
That "webinar" a few minutes ago about today's massive #salesforce / #heroku outage was pretty embarassing. I learned a few things:
1. the outage was caused because they run unattended-upgrades on some critical subset of their servers (based on the details of the outage, I'm thinking NAT boxes) and don't test/pin system packages???
2. the people hosting the webinar spend way too much time reading their slides
3. they didn't know that the heroku statuspage is down and returning 500's until I asked about it in the Q&A
really just... a whole thing...
So... here we go again!
#Heroku has deprecated #PostgreSQL 14, which we use in 7 of our apps hosted with them, so from today until end of the times they will be nagging us to upgrade to PostgreSQL 15 otherwise they will upgrade us to PostgreSQL 17 on Oct 28, 2025
Announcement:
--- Heroku Postgres 14 deprecation
https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/3237
is #heroku broken again
Wow. I and a colleague just spent waaaay too many hours debugging a Rails/Heroku/Redis connection issue...
...which came down to an initializer file being in the wrong folder. 
(and it's nice to have work to keep me distracted from the upcoming sh*tstorm)
@haircode #typescript #tailwind #reactRouter #docker #graphql #java #nix #vim #mac #ios #iphone #express #gcp #reactNative #nativeApps #appStore #apple #aapl #htmx #vercel #netlify #heroku #nevernester #10xDev #10xdevelopers #codeReview #pairProgramming #oop #earlyReturns #guardClauses #flutter #angular #neverNesting #unitTest #unitTesting #cssFrameworks #jest #jetbrains #neoVim #wordpress #SQL #postgresql #rdbms #rubyOnRails
What alternative to Heroku are you using to deploy your Python projects? (Please boost for reach!)
(Same survey as last year, let's see if the results are significantly different)
If you're not sure what a memory leak looks like… it looks like this. Notice the occasional slow ramp, followed by a constant (sometimes at higher/lower pitch) increase. I suspect this memory leak is particular to a certain kind of traffic. Tomorrow (or maybe Tuesday) I go spelunking. I'll report back what I find.
I could have sworn the #Ruby version support policy was “the 3 latest versions.” #Heroku's official Ruby buildpack seems to agree. But it seems the policy is 3 versions, plus an extra 3 months-ish? https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/
When did this change? Was it always the case and I just missed it? /cc @Schneems
To host a #vapor and #postgres app, would you recommend #heroku, #digitalocean or another service? I have used Digital Ocean, but I wanted to know if there are better options.
@elight ohh, I didn't know you use to work at Heroku.
BTW I'm not blaming engineers nor the engineering team at all. Perhaps you can tell if this just because the gigantic bureaucracy at #Salesfoce that enable and made this kind of issue to extend to unacceptable level #Heroku was not used to have - because that's how it looks from the outside.
You call it #Heroku outage, we call it "Yet another Thursday when we are not able to deploy for 4 hours to production because Heroku is having issues with their API"
Oh, look, #heroku’s control plane is totally down. Must be a day ending in “y”…
I just discovered that one of my #Heroku apps that was using the free #Logentries integration… wasn’t anymore. And Logentries doesn’t show up on Heroku’s addons page anymore.
I have a suspicion that the associated Logentries account was connected to an email address of someone not on the project anymore, but an email from Heroic would’ve been nice here, too...
If you have (had?) a free Logentries account connected to a Heroku app, you might want to see if it’s still there!
ugh every time I have to mess with it it becomes super-clear that nobody at #heroku cares at all about their feature to be able to deploy docker containers and nobody has so much as looked at their bug backlog since like 2018... I will be so glad to get this application off of heroku soon...
I can imagine something like this being a "lens" through which an instance like Mastodon.art is viewed: http://tootages.herokuapp.com
If anyone has an interest, here is the #python #flash web app, intended to be deployed (as you see) on #heroku: https://github.com/ajleahey/tootages
Loving all the innovative stuff folks are coming up with for #Mastodon and the #fediverse more broadly.
Made quick and dirty "tootages" which displays all the publicly-available images of an instance. It uses #python via #flask and is meant to be deployed on #heroku
#Github repo: https://github.com/ajleahey/tootages/blob/main/app.py
Link to app proof of concept: http://tootages.herokuapp.com which is of course polling (public timeline only) images from https://esq.social.
TIL dokku. Has anyone actually used this professionally to run production apps?
https://dokku.com/
#paas #dokku #heroku
