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title: "If Heroku is so special, why is it dying?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/if-heroku-is-so-special-why-is-it-dying--5h44n35ok
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3671355/if-heroku-is-so-special-why-is-it-dying.html#tk.rss_all
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2022-08-29T10:11:51.465Z
updated: 2022-08-29T10:11:51.464Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "cicd", "computing", "heroku", "salesforce"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 20
comments: 8
language: en
---

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# If Heroku is so special, why is it dying?

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 3 min read · 20 upvotes · 8 comments

## Summary

A golden age of developer experience Heroku is back in the news because it recently announced the elimination of its free tier. Why is Kubernetes and not Heroku the increasingly default way to build and scale applications? Some suggest Heroku was simply ahead of its time.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@danieltp19** · 4 upvotes

> it's not dying. Heroku is just removing a free tier. One of the official reason is also massive flow of new accounts created to abuse the free quota.

**@adibenmat** · 1 upvotes

> I don't know if it's going to die, But I think k8s is like an open source heroku and with today improved ci/cds heroku advantage is kind of loosened

**@ksharma20** · 0 upvotes

> Dying ?
> *Naaaah* !
> Just *removing free tier* so that you **pay before you use** , It's just a *tactic* to **tackle with free quote abuse** !

**@osantos** · 0 upvotes

> this title remembers me of the classic "if he was so smart how come he's dead" lol

**@avik6028** · 0 upvotes

> If Salesforce wants, they can tackle abuse of free-tier easily. This excuse doesn't simply fit  in. They must have some other reasons.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#computing](https://daily.dev/tags/computing), [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku), [#salesforce](https://daily.dev/tags/salesforce)

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