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Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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528 points sealeck | 1 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | 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. jpgvm ◴[16 May 22 07:54 UTC] No.31394524[source]▶
I worked at one of the beneficiaries of that exodus with some ex-Heroku Erlang folk. Can't speak to if Dogwood was a fools errand or not but dumping Erlang in favor of Go considering the quality of Erlang talent they had on staff was definitely a colossal fuckup.