Overview
Heroku announced it’s transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model” focused only on stability and security, with no new features being developed. The platform will remain operational but Salesforce is shifting investment toward AI products instead.
Key Facts
- Transitioning to sustaining engineering model - existing apps will keep running but platform won’t evolve
- Focus limited to stability, security, reliability, and support - no innovation or new capabilities coming
- Salesforce redirecting investment toward enterprise AI products - Heroku is no longer a growth priority
- Corporate communication deliberately vague about customer impact - users left uncertain about platform’s future
Why It Matters
This signals the beginning of Heroku’s decline as a major cloud platform, forcing developers to consider migrating to alternatives like Fly.io before Salesforce potentially shuts it down entirely.