Andrew Walker
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

I know right?

We started on Heroku and found it as cool as App Engine back then.

We’ve found two benefits for Google over Heroku: price and quality/confidence (for the 3rd party elements).

Heroku sat on top of IaaS back then. They abstracted it from you, but the cost was much higher than Google when you added all the supporting services in like queueing, search..

We also found ourselves having to evaluate the third party add-ons like databases, search. They all had different QOS parameters and terms of service (effectively). On Google everything is the same quality standard and sits under the same terms & conditions, security and so on (effectively).

My experience on Heroku is way out of date though, these things may no longer be true. Might be worth another look.

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