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Heroku

Heroku is a proprietary PaaS owned by Salesforce (acquired Dec 2010 for $212M cash; founded 2007 by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry). On Feb 6, 2026, Salesforce moved Heroku into a "sustaining engineering model": security patches and reliability fixes only, no new Enterprise Account contracts sold to new customers (existing Enterprise deals still renew as usual). The current platform generation is Fir (GA 2025), replacing the old Cedar-14 stack with Kubernetes and OCI containers built via Cloud Native Buildpacks; Fir dynos currently run ARM/Graviton hardware only, x86 support is still on the roadmap. Dyno pricing: Eco $5/mo (1,000 shared dyno-hours, sleeps after 30min, personal accounts only), Basic $7/mo always-on, Standard-1X $25 / Standard-2X $50 (horizontal scaling unlocks here), Performance-M $250 / Performance-L $500 (dedicated compute). Free tier was killed Nov 2022. Current version/status: Fir generation (GA 2025); "sustaining engineering" maintenance mode since Feb 6, 2026. License: proprietary SaaS. Pricing: Eco $5/mo (1,000 shared dyno-hours, sleeps after 30min, personal accounts only); Basic $7/mo always-on; Standard-1X $25 / Standard-2X $50 (horizontal scaling); Performance-M $250 / Performance-L $500 (dedicated compute); Enterprise is custom-quoted and, as of Feb 2026, no longer sold to new customers. Maintained by Salesforce (wholly owned subsidiary s

🧊Why learn Heroku?

Pick Heroku only if you already run a stable app on Cedar dynos and want zero-ops simplicity over new features — git-push deploys and managed Postgres/Redis add-ons still work fine for CRUD apps and internal tools. Don't pick it for anything net-new in 2026: Salesforce stopped selling Enterprise contracts in Feb and calls this openly a "sustaining engineering" (maintenance) mode. For new builds, Render matches the DX with a real free tier and predictable managed Postgres; Railway is faster for prototypes. Heroku's own migration docs admit Fir, its newer Kubernetes-based generation, hasn't reached feature parity with Cedar and runs ARM/Graviton-only dynos today. Known weakness: Salesforce itself confirmed no new features are coming under the Feb 2026 "sustaining engineering" shift, and its own docs admit the newer Fir generation still hasn't reached feature parity with the legacy Cedar stack it's meant to replace.

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Learning Resources

Heroku Dev Center (official docs)

Heroku Generations (Cedar vs Fir)

Migrating Apps From a Cedar Private Space to a Fir Private Space

Heroku Pricing & Plans

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