Heroku vs Northflank

Heroku was the iconic git-push platform-as-a-service that defined developer-friendly app deployment; owned by Salesforce, it was pushed into 'sustaining engineering' in early 2026 — enterprise sales halted and feature development frozen — effectively winding it down as a living product.

Self-service platform to build, deploy, and scale apps, jobs, databases, and GPU workloads, including in your own cloud.