About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Salesforce's decision regarding Heroku and its impact on developers in the AI era.

Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop taking new enterprise customers. Adam shares how the news landed in real time during a founder’s retreat, and the conversation expands into what Heroku’s apparent “maintenance mode” means for developers, pricing, autoscaling, platform alternatives, and the broader challenge of building durable developer businesses in the AI era. They also touch o...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, David Hill

Guest: Adam McCrea

Topics covered

• Heroku
• AI
• developer businesses
• hosting
• autoscaling
• platform alternatives

Keywords

• Heroku
• Salesforce
• AI era
• developer businesses
• hosting
• autoscaling
• Judoscale

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heroku, Salesforce, Judoscale

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