2026-02-07
Heroku laid off a ton of people, stopped selling Heroku enterprise and almost no one noticed. Then they put out a post saying “everything is fine, we're investing in engineering to make things better for the long term” The result: nothing but RIP posts from people as they read
Heroku
Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.
2026-02-06
Heroku laid off a ton of people, stopped selling Heroku enterprise and almost no one noticed. Then they put out a post saying “everything is fine, we're investing in engineering to make things better for the long term” The result: nothing but RIP posts from people as they read
Heroku
Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.
2025-06-03
Five years ago I joined @crunchydata, shortly after I wrote about having unfinished business with Postgres. As part of @snowflake that journey is continuing. We've built some amazing things, but are just getting started. Increasingly a first class Postgres experience isn't
Wall Street Journal
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M
an AI-ready, enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database—to our AI Data Cloud. Developers will be able to leverage the full power of open source Postgres [image] Forums: Hacker News : Sno...
2020-12-02
Migrations to Postgres from both Oracle/SQL are a growing trend in large enterprises, big move from AWS (shots fired at MSFT) on open sourcing babelfish to help with SQL->Postgres migrations - https://aws.amazon.com/...
Financial Times
Amazon unveils Monitron, a service that uses ML and low-cost sensors to monitor industrial machinery, as it looks to push into the industrial sector
Sensor and computer vision hardware come as tech giant looks to push into industrial sector — Amazon is rolling out cheap new tools …
Migrations to Postgres from both Oracle/SQL are a growing trend in large enterprises, big move from AWS (shots fired at MSFT) on open sourcing babelfish to help with SQL->Postgres migrations - https://aws.amazon.com/...
TechCrunch
AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :