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blog.porter.run is the company blog at blog.porter.run, writing about programming and startups. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Heroku Migration Program”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on missing Heroku's developer experience. The one comment discusses Heroku's pricing and why it pushed teams toward alternatives like Kubernetes. The comment does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore Porter's blog for tutorials, articles, and insights on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS, Heroku migration, and PaaS solutions.
Most-linked posts?
- The Heroku Migration Program2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-14
- Our Journey Building Porter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
- Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-27
What Hacker News says?
I think Heroku's aggressive pricing is the main driver behind making them obsolete. I honestly cannot believe Salesforce is so short-sighted with Heroku. Their approach is "Milk it as much as we can until everyone just abandons it for cheaper solutions/clones". Had they become more competitive in terms of pricing, a large, large chunk of companies would've used them rather than moving to solutions like Kube, etc, or…
Comment linking /why-companies-move-off-heroku/
on “I Miss Heroku's DevEx”Submitted Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost) as a story · 275 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon as a story · 103 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Journey Building Porter as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Postgres from Heroku to RDS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we went from remote development environments to “Heroku in your own cloud” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Heroku Migration Program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Startups Use Kubernetes? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrate from Heroku as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Datadog on Kubernetes: Avoiding Common Pitfalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussion