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by pluma 3572 days ago
I'm not sure why, but I was under the impression that Heroku had been shut down months ago.

I may have been thinking of Nodejitsu (which has been acquired by GoDaddy). Did Heroku change owners at some point or am I imagining things?

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Heroku was acquired by SalesForce, and like everything Salesforce touches, it'll slowly descend into a steaming pile of
So far it seems that Salesforce is leaving them alone to run their own business
They're one of the only acquisitions that have been kept running pretty much the same way.

There was no integration with force.com or anything like that. I don't think they're even colocated in SFDC datacenters, I think they still run on AWS

Heroku has been owned by Salesforce since 2010, and it's very loved in the SFDC family.

No chance of it shutting down anytime soon.

Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010.