[davidkuennen]

I don't know if I'm seeing things, but Heroku seems to be more expensive than GCP.

I get a 8 GB RAM Postgres instance for 200$ on Heroku. On GCP I get a 4CPU 26GB RAM Postgres instance for 280$ (Cloud SQL).

What's the USP Heroku provides?

[RedShift1]

They were early in the devops game, and provided an easy way to run things without having to deal with hardware, networks, scaling, operating systems, maintenance, etc... yourself. Nowadays I think they are no longer running on innovation, but on inertia.

[nicoburns]

Point it at your got repo, click to choose which tech stack you’re running, write a 1 line yaml file to tell it what command to run to start up, and you already have a server running and a build pipeline that deploys when you push your code.