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OP and Porter founder here. The article was meant to outline the most common technical limitations we see companies on Heroku bump up against as they outgrow Heroku. For individuals and teams running smaller workloads on Heroku where saving $ is a chief concern, Heroku is probably still a good option even though they’re declining in market share (this unprecedented recent outage aside). Porter is designed for companies that are maturing off Heroku for the technical reasons we mention or for those already looking to get the automation of Heroku in their own AWS/GCP cloud.