Salesforce The biggest Salesforce news of the last few weeks was Heroku ending their free tiers, scheduled for the end of November, thanks to abuse and fraud. It’s fair to say that the response to this was broadly negative - as I watched it unfold on Twitter I’d be surprised if as many as 0.5% of posts were agreeing with/defending the move. It’s hard to feel too much sympathy for those that were profiting from the free tier, but Heroku has always been very popular in the learning/tutorials space and it feels like a real loss when a beginner can’t just spin up a new instance to try something out. There will be support for students and non-profits going forward, and Heroku credits for select open source projects through Salesforce’s Open Source Program Office, but I’d expect that for the majority of current free tier learners that won’t be an option. Will the backlash cause a change of heart? Never say never, but right now they seem to be riding out the storm, and if it was incurring a significant cost, a bit of community unrest is acceptable collateral damage. My own use of Heroku was mostly around hosting the output of sample docs from the Org Documentor, and I’ve moved