[brown9-2]

Also worth considering how much time of RG's has been spent not just diagnosing Heroku issues, but giving interviews and writing blog posts about the ordeal. Using Heroku might allow them to spend zero time on "ops" but they've spent some non-zero time now just talking about and raising awareness of this issue!

[snprbob86]

I had never heard of Rap Genius before this Heroku thing and their app is aimed at dissecting the types of textual messages that are being exchanged back and forth here. Seems like they decided to take the "pick a fight" approach to publicity quite literally...

Although I'm getting bored of this little scuffle, I am glad that they made some noise initially because it let me know that I wasn't crazy. I was trying to profile, understand, and optimize a Heroku app and ultimately gave up because it was relatively easy to migrate.

[jcr]

This reminds me of the quote, "All press is good press," but I can't recall who said it. You're right it's a waste of engineering time, but the shitstorm also has benefits.

[itsprofitbaron]

IIRC that quote evolved from Oscar Wilde's:

  "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"