Pour one out for Heroku

Heroku was created in 2007 and bought by Salesforce in 2009. I recall it primarily being a ruby on rails thing. A developer's platform. 

Cloud Foundry was created in 2011 by VMWare and spun out in 2013 to Pivotal. The enterprise had something that worked like Heroku. I spent some time on this one. From getting it running in various environments to attending conferences and meetups. DevOps really mixed in well with the meetups. The developer's platform.

Both of these platforms did things container like, until Docker (2013) and containers of today spun up. Docker swarm tried to do scale however kubernetes had come on the scene. Flexibility and scale, along with Google backing won out. Kubernetes is the container all things solution, replacing the Cloud Foundry bosh/vm option. It did introduce a whole new set of opportunities. The everything platform.

This quick trip down memory lane, leads to  this article of Heroku going into a "sustaining engineering model". Call it what you may, "Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers." means it's ending the run. 

Pour one out for Heroku.