Heroku bites the dust
Summary
Heroku, a cloud platform acquired by Salesforce in 2010, is being phased out starting with an end-of-sale announcement due to sustainability and other strategic reasons. Salesforce professionals relying on Heroku-based functionality should proactively plan migrations to alternative platforms to avoid disruptions. This reflects the reality that companies often sunset less profitable platforms, emphasizing the importance of contingency strategies in Salesforce architecture and integrations. Teams can use this insight to review dependencies and prepare for smooth transitions away from Heroku.
Takeaways
- Salesforce is ending Heroku sales and will follow with end-of-support and end-of-life.
- Review current Heroku dependencies and identify migration plans early.
- Prepare contingency plans for platform discontinuations to mitigate risk.
- Consider alternative cloud platforms like Amazon AWS for app hosting.
- Expect companies to sunset platforms that are less profitable or sustainable.
If yourey not a developer, its possible you havent heard of Heroku before. Heroku is a cloud platform that lets you build apps. Its basically a competitor to Amazon AWS. In 2010, Salesforce bought Heroku which made a great place to offload some processing from Salesforce. For example, when I was building a web service for my tax receipting application for charities , it was a choice between Heroku and Amazon. Amazon was chosen and it seems like that was a good decision. As of a few days ago, Salesforce announced Herokus end-of-sale. They claimed its because of sustainability and a few other reasons. The next announcement will be eventually end-of-support, followed by end-of-life. If you have, or your vendors have, functionality thats built on Heroku, you may want to start asking what are the plans to migrate away from the platform. The takeaway Its expected for companies to end platforms and apps that are no longer sufficiently profitable.