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Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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528 points sealeck | 5 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.508s | source
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hthrowaway5 ◴[15 May 22 22:39 UTC] No.31391849[source]▶
At one point (a very long time ago now) it was declared that Dogwood was the future and as a result Go would be the language of choice at Heroku and Erlang would be no more.

Trouble is that Erlang ran all the important Cedar code (it might still today) and the Erlang engineers didn't particularly like the news that Erlang code was essentially deprecated so they left and nobody knew how to maintain the stack. This definitely wasn't the only problem we had but it was a big one.

What do fellow Herokai think? Was Dogwood a fool's errand? Or did we just not get enough staff to build it properly?

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1. ditsuke ◴[16 May 22 00:28 UTC] No.31392568[source]▶
Sorry I couldn't find a reference, what is dogwood?
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2. xena ◴[16 May 22 00:33 UTC] No.31392592[source]▶
The next phase after Cedar. It was mostly a "Go 2" style mythical benchmark that they compromised on for private spaces but was never really able to meet.
3. krallja ◴[16 May 22 04:37 UTC] No.31393711[source]▶
It’s mentioned in the article.
4. glenngillen ◴[16 May 22 05:04 UTC] No.31393805[source]▶
Heroku named all of their stacks after an alliterated color + tree convention:

- Argent Aspen

- Badious Bamboo

- Celadon Cedar

I can’t remember what to color name for the Dogwood stack was meant to be, we mostly only ever referred to them by the tree name and dropped the color. Suffice to say that Dogwood was meant to be the 4th major evolution of what Heroku was.

5. m12k ◴[16 May 22 10:08 UTC] No.31395234[source]▶
Second paragraph in the article