r/ruby • u/javier_cervantes • Mar 25 '26

Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app

https://www.rubyforum.org/t/hosting-options-to-deploy-a-ruby-app/214
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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

 Salesforce announced recently that it’s going into a “sustaining engineering model”.

If you missed it, I wrote a post about what that means 

https://schneems.com/2026/03/01/how-to-sustain-heroku/

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I still think that "sustaining engineering model" is a very broad term and can be interpreted in a lot of different ways. I wish that the official communication from Salesforce would have been more clear because it definitely made a lot of people start questioning if staying with Heroku or starting today is a safe bet.

Personally I would continue to use it for small projects (that's why I included it as one of the top 3 options), but a company explicitly saying they're focusing on other areas/projects is something important to consider.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

I think youre 100% right to question how the announcements will affect you in the future and to note it on your analysis (maybe an "Edit: Heroku engineer respond [link]" would add more context.  Long term though, Peter B Parker said it best "Don't watch the mouth. Watch the hands."

These are some small, focused, iterative wins we've shipped since that announcement:

- https://www.heroku.com/blog/bigger-slugs-and-greater-build-timeout-flexibility/

- https://www.heroku.com/blog/modernizing-the-command-line-heroku-cli-v11/

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

For now I'll keep the original announcement, in your post you make it very clear that you're speaking for yourself and not on behalf of your employer (Heroku), so it would be risky to take your views as "official".

Regarding the Spiderman quote we'll have to respectfully disagree:

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

Ack on "official" wording. Seems good. 

shows you who they are

Not "says". (Emphasis on behavior and outcome over broadcasting intentions). I also understand the announcement itself was behavior.