Walking down the memory lane
It is very important to understand the history of something to understand how it evolved to its current state. Over the years, the designers of Heroku have made several choices to make Heroku what we see it as today. Heroku has undergone many iterations of evolution. It all started when a few web engineers got together and built a platform as a service that looked very similar to the Unix platform. Developers could build their apps on Ruby and push them to the platform for hosting. All the value added services such as monitoring, logging, or databases were pluggable and easy to use. It was a web developer's dream come true.
The following is a short summary of Heroku's history that walks you through Heroku's evolution ...
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