piku VS roadmap

I should add one to https://piku.github.io (spoiler - this doesn't use Docker at all)

I like it. I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku/piku) with much the same interest in fixing some of my pains, so I get where you're coming from with this. Will drop it into one of my current projects to build ESP32 binaries :)

I never had any serious issue with SD cards since the Pi 2B (and I've kept Pis running for years).

Anyway, for those wanting to deploy more generic apps, that is why I initially wrote https://github.com/piku/piku - you still have to flash the OS (and rpi-imager does that with sane defaults these days), but once you're done you have Heroku-like deployments for any language runtime you install on the Pi.

I also have https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init, a cloud-init like shim that simplifies setting up machines (I'm a big fan of cloud-init, but since Raspbian doesn't support it and Ubuntu on ARM requires some fiddling to make it work I decided it wasn't too hard to roll my own).

(I probably should look into glueing that into rpi-imager, but there is are only so many hours in the day...)

I automated that away a long time ago: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/master/piku.py#L814

Piku https://github.com/piku/piku

So, stupid question: why couldn't I just use the 'baremetal' OS provided by Hetzner, install Postgres, Redis & node, create a separate db for each app, and run each app with https://github.com/piku/piku on a different port? For backups, I'll setup crontab to dump dbs locally and to S3.

piku?

In case anyone is interested, Heroku finally released pgvector support for Postgres yesterday: https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues/156

Pgvector is an extremely excellent way to experiment with embeddings in a lightweight way, without adding a bunch of extra infrastructure dependencies.

(I work at Heroku) Do you have more details on what sucks? Anything we're not already tracking to fix in our public roadmap? https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues

"GitHub - heroku/roadmap: This is the public roadmap for Salesforce Heroku services." https://github.com/heroku/roadmap

You can upvote here to try get a version of free back - https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues/51

I proposed this -> https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues/51 on the Heroku roadmap - hopefully to bring back some sort of free trial environment. Please take a look an upvote if you agree:

The public roadmap is a good idea but highlights how stale the product has become. https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues Only now researching adding Cloud Native Build Packs and HTTP2.

This will reaffirm for many the sense that Heroku is being dismantled from within. Feature sunsetting and removal of a free on-ramp doesn't help.

If you're looking for a production alternative to Heroku checkout Northflank.

https://northflank.com