So yeah, Heroku went down for 6 hours the other day.
No deploys, no logs, no dashboard. Even their status page didn’t load.
We had a hotfix to push, but everything was frozen. I couldn’t do anything except wait.
At first, I just kept checking Twitter and refreshing the CLI, hoping it would magically come back.
But after a couple of hours, I realized, this isn’t okay. I had no way to fix things. No backup. No control.
That’s when I started looking around.
What I Tried
I remembered seeing something called Kuberns a while back.
Its a lightweight, AI-powered deployment layer built on top of AWS. I didn’t expect much, but honestly, it took me less than 20 minutes to get a backend service live.
And… it just worked.
- Took me about 15–20 minutes to deploy my backend
- No YAML, no pipelines to set up
- I could see exactly what was happening during deploy
- And if something broke? I could fix it without waiting on someone else's infrastrutcure (obviously because it built on AWS)
It wasn’t just about moving away from Heroku, it was about building a system that doesn’t break just because one piece goes down.
If your platform is a black box, you’re one outage away from losing control.
For us, that day made it clear: we needed tools that give us both ease and visibility.
Have you built your Plan B yet?
Top comments (2)
yeah i’ve been in that spot way too many times tbh - losing access just fires me up to find a backup. you think folks really remember to build their plan b before shit breaks or they just hope for luck?
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