Heroku Is Not Dead
Summary
The author argues that despite Heroku's Salesforce acquisition, the platform is not dead, but faces post-acquisition integration challenges, centralized governance delays, under-resourcing, and scaling pains. The piece offers lessons on organization dynamics in tech, highlighting how decentralization versus centralization, cost-to-serve, and aging processes impact engineering productivity and platform viability. It provides insights relevant to enterprise IT, cloud ops, and platform teams.