Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack

Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by pgm8705 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:26PM (#25213186)

True, but neither are really optimal for serious production use. I've looked at them both extensively as I would love to move off Heroku due to pricing. DO App Platform is still really immature and lacking in a ton of areas. Render is much more polished from a usability standpoint, but AFAIK they don't have any sort of High Availability offerings and have had significant downtime recently.

Heroku, on the other hand has been a hassle-free solution for my company over the past 7 years, and short of a few outages (which were actually the fault of AWS from what I remember), it has been absolutely reliable.

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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by anurag on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:41AM (#25278157)

Just came across this comment (I work at Render). We did have 2 hours of downtime on 9/11 but it was the only big uptime incident in 2020, and we haven't had any major incidents since (even when AWS was down for 5+ hours).

We've worked hard to incorporate reliability lessons learned from building the platform at scale especially as we've grown [1], and I hope you'll give us another chance. If I can do anything else to help, my email is my HN handle at render.com.

[1] https://www.tfir.io/more-than-100000-services-created-on-zer...

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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by cpursley on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:27PM (#25305869)

Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but are y'all planning on adding an s3 comparable file storage service? That would be the missing piece for us.

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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by cpursley on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:42PM (#25258710)

Yeah, Heroku is awesome. I'd stay with them (despite the price) if I could run distributed Elixir.

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